[csw-maintainers] Call for testers

Trygve Laugstøl trygvel at opencsw.org
Wed Jan 14 19:38:53 CET 2009


Philip Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:30:47AM +0100, Peter FELECAN wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> or, gar could keep a record of built packages somewhere per-user, and
> do the yyyy.mm.dd.1, .2, .2 thing automatically

This really don't belong in the build tool IMO, but rather as a part of 
the submission process to a package queue (the testing queue in this 
case). Having a tool like Debian's dput [1].

[1]: http://www.digipedia.pl/man/dput.1.html

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Trygve



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