updates-testing is not useful

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Sat Jun 9 16:48:53 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Saturday 09 June 2007 10:11:42 Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> Can we implement some sort of auto-signing-and-pushing mechanism for
>> _testing_ packages at least?  I do see the value in having a human make
>> a decision for the final repository, but am having a hard time coming up
>> with a good reason for -testing.
> 
> Updates-testing wouldn't be useful then either as we could have all kinds of 
> broken deps in the repo (not that we can stop it right now, but that is being 
> worked on).

So then run repoquery before pushing packages.  If it causes the repo to 
break, then don't push it to testing.  Of course, this requires the 
ability to support multiple packages per update.




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