2008/6/26 Milan Jurik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Shawn Walker píše v út 24. 06. 2008 v 22:37 -0500: >> 2008/6/24 Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> That's mainly what I'm getting at; just put a much better way. >> >> >> >> It's perfectly fine, in my view, to require that the materials >> >> necessary to rebuild the package be provided (even if those materials >> >> are primarly binaries in some cases). >> >> >> >> There's no reason to require duplicated efforts to have packages in a >> >> repository. >> > >> > Ok. A suggestion. >> > For the longer run I think it is pertinent to evolve >> > tooling/infrastructure >> > for automated builds of package submissions possibly using the Test >> > Farm resources. Essentially the submission of a package triggers the >> > scheduling of a future build of the source recipe to verify correctness >> > with >> > a mechanism to get the results back to the contributor. Human >> > intervention >> > should not be necessary. >> >> Yes, an automated build facility would be great. I just wouldn't want >> to see us setup a contrib repository where the only way to get things >> into it was through the intervention of a build team member. Users >> should just be able to contribute a package and necessary materials >> and have it "show up" (perhaps after a quick manual approval by >> someone). >> > > It seems you are 10 years behind world. Welcome in world of automated > build farms, like http://buildd.debian.org/
I'm well aware of automated build systems having setup some of them myself. I just don't believe them to be a panacea. > Contrib binary is dangerous idea. You can't review what was really send > (easily). You are putting Opensolaris project under law and security > pressure. And closing one of the benefit of open source - collaboration. > Or make it hard, at least. Sorry but that's not a reasonable excuse to deny binary packages. They are sometimes necessary. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
