[Piuparts-devel] pull: for-holger

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Andreas,

On Mittwoch, 6. November 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Andreas Beckmann (17):
>       open_packages_url: pass urls without extension
>       open_packages_url: return the resolved url, too
>       lib/db: remember the loaded URLs
>       p-r: report all Packages files used for a section
>       p-r: generate unique dependency lists

cool!

>       p: use a tempfile when creating a tarball
>       p-s: use locking to avoid concurrent basetgz creation

nice. but doesnt this still leave a problem, when no base.tgz exists, several 
slaves are started, one builds the base.tgz and the others start testing 
packages without a base.tgz, so these tests will fail?

>       p-s: new components setting
>       p-s: quote arguments containing spaces
>       p.conf.anbe: minor fixes
>       p.conf.*: enable components = main for area = main

this made me read README_server.txt to which I have two comments:
- the purpose of area+components is not really spelled clearly, to quote from 
there:

"area" is the archive area to use...
"components" restricts the archive areas that will be used in
 the generated sources.list. Further restrictions may be set in
 distros.conf. 

What? Why/when would I want to set those to different values? Shall we add 
something like:

"area" describes where to get the packages to be tested and "components" 
describes which components should be available when testing a package.

?!

And secondly, we never really explain distros.conf anywhere...


>       p: rewrap adequate tags
>       known_problems: upgrade 'missing-copyright-file' from boring
>       whitespace and typo fixes
>       dwke: catch another exception on file disappearance
>       *.py: fixup exception strings
>       more packages that need a database

nice. all merged into develop and pushed to pejacevic and piu-slave.

> Some more things are in my queue ...

cool! Looking forward to it!
 
> Something for you could do because you did most of the adequate reporting:
[...]
> There is also this TODO item:

I dont see myself being able to work much on piuparts in the next month, 
sadly. (In general) I still want to though. :-)


cheers,
	Holger
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