[csw-maintainers] A chain of updates

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Wed Dec 14 12:00:46 CET 2011


"Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> Here's where named releases can help.  We could require sequential
> updates. For example, legacy→dublin would be a valid update path, and
> so would be dublin→kiel. However, legacy→kiel would not.
>
> If we tracked the renames, we could identify all packages that e.g.
> have gone 1→2 during the legacy→dublin transition, and have them go
> 2→3 during the dublin→kiel transition.
>
> Thoughts?

Question: does this means that I can do dublin -> ++kiel ?

Also, this means that you need to keep all the named releases or define
an obsolescence time for a named release.

-- 
Peter


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