[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs dialog

[Jonathan Craig]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Philip Brown <phil at opencsw.org> wrote:
> I believe it has already been acknowleged by the GAR team, (after
> complaints by people other than me about it)
>  that having to update your entire repo every time is a "bug", and
> that it is supposed to be addressed.
>
> (by having a shared instance of GAR.. ideally as package, installed on
> the buildfarm, so everyone is always automatically on the same version
> of GAR, if memory serves me correctly)

Not sure if a common tree is the best answer as it hampers ones
ability to work / test out other recipes while learning.  That aspect
of a private tree has been very helpful to myself as a new maintainer.
 That said, it is easy to forget to update your private copy of gar.
I would think a check during the make process that stops your build
with a message if your using an older revision of gar would be
helpful.  You could then have a variable that allows a maintainer to
proceed in the case where a maintainer intentionally wishes to use an
older rev of gar (ie GAR_SKIP_VERCHK).