Re: master2files / potato
"Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de> writes:
> * "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> wrote:
>
> Adam> Getting it fully tested is something that others will do.
>
> I think it is necessary to do this. I have to determine if all
> dependancies can be fulfilled on the archs the task is specified
> for. And secondly, if two tasks conflict directly or
> indirectly. With X tasks and profile packages, you don't want to
> determine this manually.
Yes -- but I wouldn't consider what you're talking about there "full
testing" -- that's just consistency testing. Anyhow, your goals here
conflict with your goals below to fold out packages to area experts.
> Adam> I don't really get what the strategy is... I thought we were
> Adam> going to rip out the task / profiles from the CVS area entirely,
> Adam> and upload them as a batch to the Debian archive itself with
> Adam> special naming (task-* and profile-* perhaps).
>
> This is one part. And it is technically very easy. The only thing is
> to determine the purpose of the different tasks and then to determine
> the contents of these.
master2files already contains a list...
> I posted a list some time ago, as I am really
> not qualified to determine the content of e.g. task-c-devel.
I don't remember this posting. Perhaps you could email debian-devel
and ask for help. Or just upload task packages based on stuff from
master2files (updated for potato) and then orphan them and call out
for maintainers.
> The second thing is the dependancy check. If task-foo and task-bar
> conflict indirectly, then this has to be either resolved by removing
> something, or the task/profile selector has to know about
> this. Otherwise a user will wonder why nothing got installed and he
> gets these strange "conflicts" messages form apt-get, when he
> selected task-foo and task-bar.
I personally think this concern is purely secondary and should be
worked out as we reach it. Consistency testing, however, can be
automated.
> Adam> What would be in the boot-floppies CVS area is just the little
> Adam> interface to help the user select these, right?
>
> Correct.
Gah.
Martin, I really think you're not moving fast enough or delegating
enough or something. I think if you aren't able to get *something*
(i.e., the task/profiles) uploaded by next week, we need to back off
this whole plan for potato and go back to master2files.
The clock is ticking!
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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