Re: PROPOSAL: "Staging Areas"
On 24 Feb 1999, Guy Maor wrote:
> Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:
>
> > Actually, if you think about it, 'proposed-updates' is the exact same
> > thing as a "staging area", except those packages get installed into
> > 'stable'.
>
> Yes, dinstall already has this capability which I developed for
> proposed-updates. Adding new, similar, distributions just means
> adding entries to the distribution database. I'm not sure if it's a
> good idea to create these distributions on demand though.
How would you feel to creating one special purpose gtk-gnome-updates
distribution, for use by the debian-gtk-gnome team, then?
Jules
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