[Piuparts-devel] pull: for-holger, RFC-or-pull feature/virtual-merged-distros

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> adding stuff to distros.conf does not add a single log somewhere :-)

ok, right, but it's usually the first step in that direction...
 
> > distros, thus 60k in logs and 40k (or so) in maintainer and source html
> > packages. Which are generated daily.
> and in less than an hour

yes, but still.. This will add 40min to the 2h each day.

> > why would a candidate have several URLs?
> 
> candidates = set of packages to be tested
> if we are going to merge several packages files, we need more than one
> url, so that we can cherry pick the newest versions from all of them

right, thanks.
 
> while we could have a partial distribution of wheezy-proposed-updates,
> that does not easily allow testing the effect the updated packages have
> on other packages in wheezy

I'm aware...

> and of course we can do the same with oldstable

So many tests to run... :)


cheers,
	Holger
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