[csw-maintainers] Using package overlay with UNCOMMITTED packages

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Wed Sep 9 16:15:54 CEST 2009


Hi Maciej,

Am 09.09.2009 um 16:01 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Sebastian  
> Kayser<skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> It is not related to pkgutil as my catalog generation tool skips
>>> files with UNCOMMITTED in them. If we consider it generally ok to
>>> have those packages in testing I can change that and include them
>>> in the catalog.
>>
>> Sounds like something that should rather go into "experimental".  
>> Would
>> be nice to get testing a bit more stable so that users can test  
>> stuff in
>> there without hosing their system.
>
> Maybe this could be an option to bldcat: --experimental or
> --include-uncommitted, or something similar.

Ok, maybe I didn't make that clear: It is my tool linking packages to
the subdir where the catalog is made. bldcat just takes everything
in there and adds it to the catalog, the files are just linked in there.


Best regards

   -- Dago



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