On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:52, Justin Mason <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 00:36, Daryl C. W. O'Shea > <[email protected]> wrote: >> If we're publishing rule updates for 3.3 from trunk I don't see why we'd >> generate a rule tarball from the branch (with sandbox rules, sans >> scores, anyway). If you install 3.3 using sa-update to get the rules >> you're getting the trunk version of the rules; the tarball should give >> you the same sort of thing. >> >>> if so, what script should we use to do so? >> >> Just grab a recent nightly update, rename it, and use that. The safest >> one to use would be a weekly one right after the net enabled mass-check >> results (Saturday night's update around 10:30 PM ET -- Sunday, 2:30 AM >> UTC). Although, any update should be safe, the differences should be >> minor. 922507 is the most recent. > > OK, I'll do that for 3.3.1.
I think I have this working btw. > For long term use, though, we'll need some way to cut a rules tarball > using what's in SVN right now, rather than what was there on the previous > night. in my opinion it's unsafe to risk differences between what's > live in svn and what we're releasing, particularly if changes went in > during that window. > > We can, of course, use the scores that were generated then (but with > changes since then included too). simple way to do this -- can we just SVN merge from trunk/rules back to 3.3/rules? that'd be quite elegant and easy to do. --j.
