On Wednesday 24 September 2008 23:42:13 Rod Whitby wrote: > Sander van Grieken wrote: > >> Sander van Grieken wrote: > >>>>> That may be, but despite that I need a daily package for kernel I can > >>>>> point people to. > >>>>> Actually blocking current stable kernel from users by not packaging > >>>>> it, which seems to > >>>>> be the case, is completely backwards. > >>>> > >>>> That may be the case, and you defintely should be able to point > >>>> experienced alpha testers to such isolated packages for testing, but > >>>> you don't want inexperienced Joe Random User permanently setting their > >>>> opkg feeds to a such a directory, so you don't really want it as part > >>>> of the official feeds ... > >>> > >>> Since it's the _stable_ tree testing should already have been done > >>> before merging > >> > >> I have no doubt that Andy will have tested the kernel changes. > >> > >> The question is how does that new kernel interoperate with the rest of > >> the rootfs. For instance, (and people will remember this one well), are > >> the modules packaged correctly into the rootfs. Has the userspace been > >> updated to match changing /sys file locations? > >> > >> There's more to keeping a distribution consistent than just testing one > >> item in isolation ... > > > > I agree, and that's where sane-srcrevs.conf comes in, because it acts as > > a gatekeeper for distribution integration testing. > > > > But the SD card corruption patch (and most others patches) have no impact > > on interfaces or integration and could have been pushed out into the > > world much earlier. They solve important problems users have. > > Yes, and sane-srcrevs.inc is the file which needs to be changed by the > person who makes the guarantee that it has no impact on interfaces or > integration. Then it will appear in the testing feeds automatically.
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