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Re: Source only uploads?



On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:25:12PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:52:07PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:30:12AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > > | IMHO, it is very important that source only uploads are allowed
> > > | in case:
> > > |  a) developers are not running Sid
> > > |  b) developers are not running up-to-date Sid
> > > 
> > > You should run sid.
> > 
> > Even if the only computers you have may be important machines, where
> > uptime is very important in keeping stress levels at a minimum?
> 
> This is where it's been said to use pbuilder, which I thought was the
> "best practice" way of building packages, in terms of consistency. I've
> subsequently seen opinions to the contrary.

Even though I run sid on my main machine, I like to maintain a chroot
using David Kimdon's dchroot. One the one hand, it doesn't have to be
unpacked all of the time, but on the other hand, it is not always clean.

-- 
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