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

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Oh, neat. Can we, TUs, get access to it too? (Unless we already do and
I missed it.)