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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Benedikt Böhm <hollow@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 01/18/2013 09:28 AM, Benedikt Böhm wrote: |
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>> > but - and that's quite important i guess - i only use my own clone of |
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>> > the portage tree which i sync from time to time and i also keep |
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>> > different versions stable, etc. |
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>> HEAVY USER! But you have full control. |
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>> Do you have any sophisticated mechanism to detect tree breakage (i.e. us |
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>> f*** up), like Samuli replying -commit to -dev or irc activity? |
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>> Or do you simply delay commit? (re-schedule on weekends/nights) |
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> i manually sync with the gentoo-x86 repo from time to time (except |
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> security issues, which i sync as soon as they are fixed) |
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> i have no automated way to detect any tree breakage, but when i sync the |
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> complete tree i do extensive manual testing on a handfull of machines |
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> (either staging machines, or ones that are not really important) |
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> but the main reason i even have a clone is to sync updates in batches. |
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> it's really a hassle to keep servers in sync when changes to gentoo-x86 |
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> happen any other minute. i also need to adapt my chef cookbooks for some |
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> updates, so i do it all in one batch (sync, test, adapt, test, deploy) |
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i forgot to add one main difference here: i only have ~1000 packages in my |
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repo, which makes it a lot faster for metadata, rsync, eix and all that ... |
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the repo is only used for server deployments. no desktop, no games, only |
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very few X11 ebuilds for headless testing etc. |
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