[oi-dev] pkg version bump in /dev

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek jeffpc at josefsipek.net
Thu Nov 24 00:55:49 UTC 2011


On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 01:51:34AM +0100, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> * Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc at josefsipek.net> [2011-11-24 00:28]:
> > A bunch of people have been using /experimental's pkg.  Everything seems to
> > work quite well.  (For those of you who don't know, /experimental has the
> > 173 pkg backport.)
> > 
> > Thoughts about moving this into /dev?  I think it'll make things easier for
> > us in the long run - less divergence between /dev and /experimental, as well
> > as very useful features such as mediated links.
> 
> /stable was to be branched off of /dev and /dev should serve as a
> testbed for updates and fixes going into the stable release. So
> in order to allow users who currently run /dev to migrate to
> /stable later we can't currently upgrade /dev to /experimental.

I'm not sure what you thought I meant, but...

> However, I'm all for integrating the b173 pkg backport into /dev
> and thus the stable release.

This is what I was thinking.

Jeff.

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