Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:17:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Hello world, So, on -devel-announce, I mentioned: * New testing distribution [...] So some more details. The way testing is supposed to work is to have three distributions at any one time: a stable tree, a testing tree, and

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Peter Makholm
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's beautiful. I want it now. :-) I couldn't agree more. We could always fine tune it when we know how it works with live data. But I think you'right. Some way of chrash-install into testing would be nice when dealing with root-exploits. -- Peter

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:17:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Automated Process? ~~ So pretty much all the policy is encoded in some automated process which updates testing. It works at the moment, basically as follows: 1. First, it loads up all the Sources and

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:34:35AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? Because a package lying for 3 weeks in unstable says nothing about it being

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 09:26:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Another reason to run unstable is to live on the actual bleeding edge: testing will always be around two weeks out of date. That can be a fair while, if you're impatient. Supporting this, there's some Apt changes in CVS that'll

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Edward Betts
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? I for one like the bleeding-edge. I like stuff that breaks, because I get to fix it. I like filing bug

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 18-Aug-00, 06:26 (CDT), Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Supporting this, there's some Apt changes in CVS that'll let people choose a few packages from one distribution and leave the rest from another. To whoever implemented this feature: ThankyouThankyouThankyou -- it's

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Edward Betts wrote: Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? I for one like the bleeding-edge. I like stuff that

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Mircea Luca
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:34:35AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? In my case curiosity to test new stuff without having to deal with the other

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Another reason to run unstable is to live on the actual bleeding edge: testing will always be around two weeks out of date. That can be a fair while, if you're impatient. At best. Please remember there are some maintainers that will have to

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread dvdeug
I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? I don't know - how many people are running glibc 2.1.92 now? How about X 4.0? GNAT 3.13? I'm running two out the three, because I'm too

Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-17 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, So, on -devel-announce, I mentioned: * New testing distribution This is a (mostly finished) project that will allow us to test out distribution by making it sludgey rather than frozen: that is, a new distribution is added between