Repocopying?

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Jul 21 21:26:00 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 17:03 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 23:58 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > Do we have a feature or process where when doing updates, one could
> > request a build for let's say FC-4, and when that finishes, ask the FC-4
> > packages to be copied to the devel repo as-is?
> > 
> > I'm going to update xemacs-sumo for FC-4 and devel, it's a pretty large
> > package that could be exactly the same in both repos.  It feels somewhat
> > silly to differentiate and rebuild for both in cases like this, and of
> > course asking builds for both using the same NEVR is out of the
> > question, and wouldn't probably even work.
> > 
> 
> processor time is cheap

Sure, but everyone's bandwidth is not, nor is there heaps of it
available everywhere.  The duplicate builds gain us nothing, and do
inflict completely unnecessary upgrades for end users.




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