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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