[aur-general] away

Ike Devolder ike.devolder at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 14:26:43 EDT 2012


Op woensdag 1 augustus 2012 19:10:54 schreef Nicola Bignami:
> Il 01/08/2012 18:30, Ike Devolder ha scritto:
> > Well then i'll drop the auto-updaters for community. but in general i find
> > this very handy. i'll leave the scripts in the git repo for now but i'll
> > drop the cronjob now.
> > 
> > --Ike
> 
> Personally I think that your tool to automatically generate the updated
> packages is great and very handy. On the other side, I'm not willing to
> trust a package that has been generated automatically without any sort
> of control to be installed on my system (and I think I'm not the only
> one). The wrong thing IMHO is to automatically push the new package to
> the repo without any real test and check ("it builds" is not an answer).
> 
> I'm not a TU, but I think your tools could be used to prepare the new
> updated packages in a local pool, ready to be tested and checked and
> then *manually* fetched to the repo only if everything is fine.

i might move to such system over time but now i have no time to do the testing 
of the buildsystem so i will bring in the packages manually as before.

--Ike
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