On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:26:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Mark Brown wrote:
> >Would it also be possible for porters to update the snapshots in some > >manner beyond having an apt source equivalent to the security archive > >added by d-i? > It'd be possible, certainly -- cf proposed-updates and stable. It would be useful if this could be clarified in any revision of the proposal - I don't think I was the only one to read it as saying that non-release ports wouldn't have any options other than simple snapshots. > Whether it would happen would depend on how useful it is; you have to > add security.d.o to your sources.list and download from it for stable > releases anyway; and the expectation is that non-release arches don't > stress as much about RC bugs and similar as release arches will, which My thought was that some of the non-release architectures that were in generally good shape might want to provide a version stable which would ideally involve the ability to do things like tracking the released stable. > Feedback from porters on how these things could actually work usefully > in real circumstances would be valuable here. Having a way of making > snapshots is probably the minimal level of support we'd envisage, > working out what that would actually achieve, and what benefits more > support would actually bring would be interesting. Yup. Presumably there would be varying requirements from the ports - at least some of the ports would be perfectly happy with simple snapshots. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
