[csw-maintainers] Call for testers

[Peter FELECAN]

Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> This would not only be interesting for the feedback, but also for
>> pkg-get / pkgutil.  Can they be forced to install a package from testing
>> when the filename and version remain identical (which is per default the
>> case for GAR builds done on the same day)?
>
> There's no --reinstall option in pkgutil but if you remove the package
> you want to reinstall first, you will always get the latest one at the
> next install if you don't have a caching problem in your proxy for
> example.

This could be helped with a build sequence number, as used in rpm and
deb packages; this can be enforced in a build system such as gar,
consequently two successive builds have different signatures --- btw,
the package's md5 sum of the package offers such a thing.
-- 
Peter