Anthony Towns wrote:
> At the moment, testing's d-i is a symlink to unstable's. What will happen
> when Joey gives the word is that symlink will be replaced by a proper
> directory which will mirror the current contents of unstable's d-i,
> but will not be auotmatically updated in any way - IOW, it'll be frozen,
> again until Joey gives the word. Meanwhile, updates to unstable d-i will
> continue working quite happily, and updates to the regular testing debs
> (not udebs) will also continue.
> 
> Basically, we're looking at something like:
> 
>       latest udeb     latest udeb
>       in testing      in unstable
> 
>       2004-01-01      2004-01-01
>       2004-01-02      2004-01-02
>       ...
>       2004-01-08      2004-01-08 Joey gives the word to start the freeze
>       2004-01-08      2004-01-09 unstable keeps updating w/ new uploads
>       2004-01-08      2004-01-10 testing doesn't
>       ...
>       2004-01-08      2004-01-20
>       2004-01-21      2004-01-21 Joey says end the freeze, testing udebs
>       2004-01-22      2004-01-22 match unstable udebs again. freeze again
>       2004-01-22      2004-01-23 as necessary
> 
> (dates have no relationship to reality)

Almost but not quite what I intend. I want to do this one architecture
at a time, starting with i386. So testing/main/debian-installer will
look like this:

    binary-alpha -> ../../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-alpha
    binary-arm -> ../../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-arm
    binary-hppa -> ../../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-hppa
    binary-ia64 -> ../../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-ia64
    binary-i386/
    binary-powerpc -> ./../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-powerpc

Before beta2, more arches will switch over on their own schedule.
We need to do it this way because it's hard to test the latest version
of d-i on an arch like ia64 that is not quite ready yet, or build CDs of
it, without testing pointing to unstable.

If this isn't possible, I'll have to rethink some things, obviously..

-- 
see shy jo

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