[csw-maintainers] where is graphviz-2.28 ?

[Maciej Bliziński]

2011/6/24 Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:55 AM, John Ellson <ellson at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'm assuming that the ImageMagic fix is small and that we should have a new
>> set of packages in a few days, but Dago didn't say when he was going to be
>> back.
>>
>> I'm not even so worried about the web pages on this occasion.   It just
>> seems to me that some scripts need to be fixed so that web updates are
>> atomic and only happen if batching is successful.
>
>
> Would be useful.
> However, at my utility script level, there is unfortunately no concept
> of a maintainer-grouped-batch at the moment.
> There is only individual-package visibility.
>
> As I said, this isnt a problem with smaller grouped packages, so there
> isnt much incentive to write something fancier.
> I could in theory write something that would be more package-group
> aware. However, it would probably involve a lot of saved state, and a
> high (relative) degree of inner complexity. Which would mean high
> likelyhood of bugs.
> My gut level risk/reward analyzer suggests it would probably end up
> causing more problems than it would solve.

Trygve had an idea to create long-lived catalog update objects.  I
didn't attempt to implement them yet.  It looks a bit like
implementing version control for catalog, so I'm still looking if
there's a way of achieving the same objective (controlling complex
updates) in some other, simpler way.

Maciej

[1] http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~trygvis/upload-application/opencsw-upload-process-application.html