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Re: Automatic Debian 'slushy'



On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:47:58PM -0800, Brian wrote:
> I don't know enough about apt or how Debian distribution sites
> are maintained to know if this is feasible.
> 
> Would it be possible to approximate a 'slushy' release by only
> upgrading to newer packages when the version numbers of said
> package and its dependencies hasn't changed in (n) days?
> 
> I'm trying to imagine whether this could be accomplished locally
> by fetching package lists daily and creating lists based on a
> comparison of current and (n)-day-aged lists.
> 

Anthony Towns was working on creating a new `testing' distribution to
be inbetween unstable and frozen.  its similar to what your
proprosing, im not sure what happened with it, i think mirror space is
a problem.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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