Re: Familiar Release Strategy

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:09:55PM -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> There's still one issue to think about here.
>
> We absolutely need an easy mechanism for those users who only want to
> track releases, (rather than feeds), to easily upgrade. I don't
> consider editing the /etc/ipkg.conf and changing 0.4 to 0.4.1 an easy
> mechanism, (at least for purposes of this discussion).

Maybe we need a util to be able to track things, and let the users
know when changes have been made that they want to check out.

> With the current ipkg, tracking a feed is as simple as "ipkg update;
> ipkg upgrade". We should ensure that tracking releases is just as
> simple I think.
>
> Or does that simply create another "feed" which is the latest point
> "release"?

Hah. We could go Debian-a-like and break it down as stable, testing,
and unstable. Stable pointing to the latest release. My issue is
that I don't want people to be auto-upgrading to the next release
unless they explicitly ask for it. I don't think having people
editing /etc/ipkg.conf is too much to ask, but I'd rather have
a utility that did that for them.

Alexander
Received on Fri May 18 2001 - 11:18:53 EDT