[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs cswutils

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

No dia 13 de Janeiro de 2011 08:31, Peter FELECAN
<pfelecan at opencsw.org> escreveu:
> Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:
>
>> [...]
>> If regular maintainers need to stay with 'the latest official
>> version', then lets have 'the official version' of the scripts, etc.
>> always properly installed on the build machines, in a single standard
>> location, rather than making people have to locally update their own
>> tree at random times?
>
> Entirely agreeing with you. What you describe is one, and not only,
> reason for which I didn't try to adopt gar based packaging.

I understand this point, however I think that central distribution
would cause more problems than it would solve.  If we wanted to
distribute gar centrally, we would need to package it.  If we wanted
to install a package on the buildfarm, we would need to release it
first.  For it to be released, it would have to be accepted and pushed
by release manager.  Imagine a scenario in which we want to push a
bugfix for GAR, and the release manager blocks the release, because he
thought it would be neat to force gar package maintainter to do
unrelated work.  It's more practical for people to update gar sources
when they want to, rather than waiting for a release which might be
blocked at random times.