[arch-dev-public] [staging] repository: Let's give it a try!

[Pierre Schmitz]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:43:15 +0200, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>
wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:29 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> testing:
>>  * don't break packages intentionally
>>  * don't push incomplete rebuilds
>>
>> staging:
>>  * a global staging repository for collaboration
>>    its more similar to your ~/staging dir than a regular repository
>>  * mostly meant for incomplete rebuilds
>>  * will be excluded from mirroring (for now)
> 
> Looks fine to me, but before we implement this, I want to see the
> package pools implemented. That way stuff can move between
> testing/staging/extra/core without ever needing extra mirroring.

Of course this depends on the package pool idea which makes moving
packages a matter of creating symlinks. (this is more or less done btw.)

-- 
Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre