[Server-devel] status of the xs repositories

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Tue Aug 21 14:08:53 EDT 2007


Hi John,

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 07:07, you wrote:
>    Please use the repositories described in  http://wiki.laptop.org/
> go/XS_Software_Repositories
> The git tree is the definitive source, the repositories in testing/
> olpc/7/ and stable/olpc/7/ will soon
> reflect the head and a well-tested tag in the git tree.    Right now,
> I've been building into the stable
> repos as nothing is stable yet!

Ok.

> Each developer, or group of developers will likely have another repo
> for adding the latest build of
> packages they are working on or want to test against.

Uh. Why not go with "everybody can throw stuff in testing, but only selected 
stuff will be moved to stable"?!

> We need to simplify the  mirroring of the Fedora repo into the
> testing/updates repo (w. notable exceptions,
> like the kernel).   Transfer from testing/updates into stable/updates
> will be manual...

Ok, btw, is there a kernel-rpm we can use for the XS?

> I'm shying away from using dev.laptop.org for anything but the master
> git repositories.  We recommend
> using xs-dev.laptop.org for school server development.

Ack.

> I'm back online after a short vacation.

You will be back or you are back? :-) In any case: I hope you had good times!


regards,
	Holger
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