From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: per-version hints proposal
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161209104616.GB24624@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ae655c4-a36e-9de8-a7d3-953d5cece84d@dronecode.org.uk>
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On Dec 8 19:30, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 30/08/2016 13:24, Jon Turney wrote:
> > This file is called override.hint.
>
> While not a great deal of use is made of test versions, this mechanism
> doesn't seem to be working well for that, and there have been several
> requests to improve it.
>
> There's no automation to generate override.hint, and writing it correctly
> requires too much knowledge about how calm is going to process it.
> [...]
ACK. It's kind of backwards compared to the new layout with per-version
hint files.
> The proposal to address this is:
>
> Add support to calm for a 'test:' line in PVR.hint, marking a version as a
> test version.
ACK
> If multiple versions are marked test, the highest version will be used as
> the test version in the generated setup.ini (and thus offered for
> installation using the 'exp' control in setup.)
>
> (Note to self: why isn't this control labelled 'test', which is an actual
> english word???)
Note to jturney, change it, don't be shy.
> Versions marked as test cannot be used as curr: (so test versions are never
> automatically promoted to curr)
>
> override.hint will continue to work, and, if one exists it takes precedence
> over these rules.
I would rather drop it as an evolutionary dead end.
> cygport will be updated to (details TBC) accept a --test flag which is
> significant to the cygport package stage, and adds this 'test:' line to all
> the generated PVR.hint files.
--test would be fine.
> To promote a package from test to curr, a script will be run on sourceware
> to remove the test: line from the existing PVR.hints in a given package
> subtree, for a given VR.
>
> Since this requires shell access on sourceware, if you don't have that, you
> can ask here or on #cygwin-developers.
I don't think this is feasible. The maintainer should have control
over the promotion from test to curr. I'm not affected by this since
I generate new versions as soon as I promote, so this is more maintainers
like JonY, for whom a rebuild and reupload of the gcc packages just to
promote test to curr is quite a burden.
First, not well thought out proposal:
- cygport gets a new command, e. g.
cygport foo.cygport {promote|untest|currify}
This command has only one purpose. It uploads a file !untest
to the maintainers upload area, with a single line containing
the version number from the foo.cygport file, i. e.
- Fetch $PVR from foo.cygport, e. g. 2.24-1.
- echo "$PVR" > !untest
- lftp !untest to cygwin.com:maintainer-area
- While creating the ini file, calm looks for !untest files. If one
is available, check the version number. If there's a matching PVR.hints
file, drop the test marker. Continue with creating the ini file.
> I would like to provide an automatic mechanism to allow package maintainers
> to promote their own test packages, but there are a few stumbling blocks in
> the way of that, currently.
-v?
Thanks,
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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Red Hat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-09 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-20 15:28 Jon Turney
2016-06-21 12:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 13:49 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-06-21 14:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 15:32 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-06-21 14:09 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-21 14:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 18:04 ` Achim Gratz
2016-06-21 18:27 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-30 12:24 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-31 19:14 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-01 17:15 ` Jon Turney
2016-12-08 19:30 ` Jon Turney
2016-12-09 10:46 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-12-09 11:10 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-12-12 13:29 ` Jon Turney
2016-12-12 13:29 ` Jon Turney
2017-04-08 17:00 ` Achim Gratz
2017-04-12 20:51 ` Ken Brown
2017-04-13 6:24 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-17 6:15 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 5:17 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-18 15:14 ` Jon Turney
2016-09-18 16:12 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 16:29 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-19 15:37 ` Ken Brown
2016-09-19 18:24 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-19 22:23 ` Jon Turney
2016-09-18 16:40 ` Ken Brown
2016-09-18 16:53 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-18 17:16 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 18:08 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-22 13:44 ` Eric Blake
2016-12-10 22:42 ` How to override previous version? David Rothenberger
2016-12-11 0:03 ` Jon Turney
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