Re: Smoketesting modulesets

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:11:50AM +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> I've put the smoketesting modulesets up on ftp.gnome.org now.
> 
> I think we're in good shape after having gotten good help from various
> maintainers needing to do new tarballs to accomodate me trying to build
> on a Fedora 15 beta system :-)

On a related note, I'm planning to rewrite all the current release
scripts in Python, as part of the install-module rewrite. I'll probably
rename that script though (e.g. handle-master).

This as:
1. I want to switch the tarballs from .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 to tar.xz
2. Current scripts do not support this
3. In the rewrite, I already handle diffs between different compression
methods

Planning something like:
  handle-master <simple-news | simple-diff | release-suites>


Drawback:
1. For security reasons, the rewritten script is in sysadmin-bin
(sysadmins only).
2. It requires Python 2.6 and GNOME infrastructure

Note: all just a plan now, but do not estimate a lot of development
time.

Lastly: Don't scream :-)

-- 
Regards,
Olav