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

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>> Let me underline again that [staging] would be no regular repo that
>> would be used by anyone directly. It mainly meant for collecting
>> rebuilds.
>
> However, it would have to be used by anyone wanting to rebuild a
> package against a new library that has been pushed to [staging].
> Therefore, it would need to be mirrored and added to /etc/pacman.conf
> in our [testing] chroots. (By `our [testing] chroots' I mean the
> chroots that developers and TUs have been using until now for building
> packages for [testing].)

No, it doesn't need to be mirrored. Developers have always had direct
access to this, ask on the developer private list if you don't know
the URL.

-Dan