Anthony Towns wrote:
> At the moment, testing's d-i is a symlink to unstable's. What will happen
> when Joey gives the word is that symlink will be replaced by a proper
> directory which will mirror the current contents of unstable's d-i,
> but will not be auotmatically updated in any way - IOW, it'll be frozen,
> again until Joey gives the word. Meanwhile, updates to unstable d-i will
> continue working quite happily, and updates to the regular testing debs
> (not udebs) will also continue.
>
> Basically, we're looking at something like:
>
> latest udeb latest udeb
> in testing in unstable
>
> 2004-01-01 2004-01-01
> 2004-01-02 2004-01-02
> ...
> 2004-01-08 2004-01-08 Joey gives the word to start the freeze
> 2004-01-08 2004-01-09 unstable keeps updating w/ new uploads
> 2004-01-08 2004-01-10 testing doesn't
> ...
> 2004-01-08 2004-01-20
> 2004-01-21 2004-01-21 Joey says end the freeze, testing udebs
> 2004-01-22 2004-01-22 match unstable udebs again. freeze again
> 2004-01-22 2004-01-23 as necessary
>
> (dates have no relationship to reality)
Almost but not quite what I intend. I want to do this one architecture
at a time, starting with i386. So testing/main/debian-installer will
look like this:
binary-alpha -> ../../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-alpha
binary-arm -> ../../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-arm
binary-hppa -> ../../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-hppa
binary-ia64 -> ../../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-ia64
binary-i386/
binary-powerpc -> ./../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-powerpc
Before beta2, more arches will switch over on their own schedule.
We need to do it this way because it's hard to test the latest version
of d-i on an arch like ia64 that is not quite ready yet, or build CDs of
it, without testing pointing to unstable.
If this isn't possible, I'll have to rethink some things, obviously..
--
see shy jo
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