Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:40:43 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkgng 1.1 beta best way to make people tests Message-ID: <20130120234042.GC782@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20130120234004.GB782@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130120234004.GB782@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:40:04AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hi all, > > As a first mail on this list, I want to open a discussion on what would be the > best way to handle the beta phase of pkgng in the ports tree. > > We are about to enter in a beta phase and we want to add the beta to the ports > tree so that people can test it easily. We also want the users to keep having > the 1.0 as default. > > We have 2 possibilities here: > 1- add WITH_PKGNG_DEVEL=yes to the actual ports-mgmt/pkg port switching the 1.0 > version to 1.1b1 a bit like WITH_NEW_XORG. bonus: really simple, can only be > activated on purpose by the user. > > 2- add a ports-mgmt/pkg-devel with the new beta which will conflict with > ports-mgmt/pkg. > > As a difficulty remember that the local.sqlite smoothly upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1 > but cannot be switch backward. > > So far I plan a two month beta/rc phase for pkg 1.1 I think the code is quite as > robust as the 1.0 branch is and should not bring too much surprises, of course, > no date base release, it will be out when ready :) > > Regards, > Bapt Sorry all wrong mailing list :( regards, Bapt [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlD8gHoACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EwzYQCcC5ZPVZPIsqILIWXmcVQJvLTM OOwAn1Y8kp+PwaJKRbeZrW+ub+r8h5mW =gBWh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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