On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 05:29, Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no full binary distribution for this update release all > convenience binaries are available as nbm packages. The folder: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/netbeans/netbeans/12.0-u2/nbms/ > <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/netbeans/netbeans/12.0-u1/nbms/> > > The weak point of an update release is the handcrafted updates.xml which is > hard to be tested without the binaries reaching their final location.
While it isn't perfect, for 11.2-u1 voting we had a parallel updates.xml on the VM (called something like updates-u1.xml.gz I think) with the changes in place but URLs pointing to dist.a.o/dev. It did actually flag an issue too. I'm not sure about using the ci-build updates file for testing - the more we layer update releases, the more problematic that might become? Also a question whether in future the updates file has to be included in an update release, and if so, whether it should be just the updated nbms? Of course, as I'm fond of saying, we only release sources, so any issue here is probably fixable in post! :-) Still, as Geertjan's been working through getting the release docs on the wiki updated as we work through 12.3, it would also be good to document update releases properly too. I'll check and vote on 12.0-u2 soon! Thanks. Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
