On May 15, 2024 5:08:47 AM EDT, Christian Hesse <l...@eworm.de> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I used to push later pre-releases for essential core packages (for example > systemd and util-linux) to core-testing. The idea was to have some extra > testing even before building the final packages. For some time this worked > quite well... > > Lately this broke, though. > Our current tooling (pkgctl from devtools) builds packages (at least core > ones) in core-testing. We then moved a package that was built with util-linux > 2.40rc2. It's dynamic linking was ok, but it required the symbol MOUNT_2_40 > from libmount.so, still breaking. We had to move the util-linux pre-release > packages to core to solve this. > > Of course this had not been detected before, because packages in testing were > ok in that combination. > > So wondering how to solve this, and have some extra testing anyway. The more > people testing pre-release packages the better... > > Having said that - I have set up a custom repository for now with systemd > 256rc2. To test that add these lines to your pacman.conf: > > [testing] > Server = https://pkgbuild.com/~eworm/$repo/$arch/ > > Feedback welcome!
The options that come to mind are either additional official -unstable repos or AUR packages with third-party repos. -- Best, Daniel <https://danielcapella.com>
