On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 10:01:41AM +0700, Alexander Sosedkin wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 00:05:17 +0200 > Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > > > That's unfortunate, yes, but there's no easy way to keep old packages > > around in a given repository. > > That's one way to think about it. Got it, keeping old modules is hard. > But I wasn't asking about keeping old modules, I see no point in this. > I was asking about generating and publishing a matching > dists/testing/main/installer-<arch>/current on kernel upload. > Why is _that_ hard? > > I'm asking less of "why isn't it equal to > https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images tree", > and more of "why not d-i stretch rc 2 rebuilt with new kernel". > And https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749991#59 > doesn't quite cut it. Triggering is hard? Maybe, why not cron then?
We actually do cron. That's what daily-images is. What's in the repository, however, is a whole different beast, and "cron" is so far away from the solution that it's not funny. -- < ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules, and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too. -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12