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Re: Churning in Grip repositories



On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:41:12 +0000
Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote:

> I've mostly completed the perl rewrite of the Grip repository management
> code for emdebian-tools 1.4.15 and things are looking a lot better.

Still some more testing to do but things are looking better.
 
> 1.1. As a consequence of working override support, Tasks are
> supportable for the first time. However, tasks can only be supported
> when the package is included into the Grip repository, either by
> removing the old and reintroducing it or when a new version arises so
> some packages need to be updated. This is a lower priority and will
> only be done if the relevant packages need to be updated anyway.

As it turns out, Tasks appears to be more difficult than expected.
 
> Net result: The Grip repositories will be in a state of churn for a few
> days and lots of packages are likely to be missing for short periods
> of time. Worse, because various source packages need to be reintroduced
> *at the same version*, the source packages in testing will need to be
> removed as well. To remove the source package, reprepro insists on also
> removing the binaries. Bah.

That should be OK again now.

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