On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 22:42 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote:
On 11/01/2010 10:37 PM, Jason Reardon wrote:
I'm somewhat of a mailing list lurker. I've read before that one thing Arch is lacking in are normal users testing packages. So, I wrote a script to install packages from testing when someone asked for a sign-off, so that I could give my input if needed. But, just for clarification, if I wish to contribute in this manner, I need to run a machine solely from the testing repos?
You can get away with excluding groups of packages from testing, but I don't think there's a good way to automate the process. I don't think there is any real strong desire to do so either. (If there was, a solution might be to have groups in testing which define packages in a related rebuild project like texlive recently, xorg-server upgrade, lib* upgrade...)
Additional dev work for no real purpose. As a user with only one main machine, I run [testing] and don't experience much problems. Some basic knowledge on downgrading is of course needed. Just use [testing] in totality and maybe script a way to reverse any particular update (for example, 30 packages updated, only reverse those) if there's problems.