[Mageia-dev] packages pushed to cauldron updates_testing before release

[nicolas vigier]

On Tue, 29 May 2012, David Walser wrote:

> Thomas Backlund <tmb at ...> writes:
> > 29.05.2012 19:48, David Walser skrev:
> > > Packagers,
> > > 
> > > If you pushed a package to updates_testing in Cauldron before Mageia 2 was
> > released, please make sure you re-push it if you want the fix/update included
> > in Mageia 2.  The change should already be in the SVN, so all
> > you need to do is resubmit it to the build system (and file a bug with an
> > advisory and assign it to QA of course).
> > > 
> > 
> > Nope.
> > 
> > SVN was branched according on what was tagged and uploaded on mirrors as
> > that's the only way to make sure svn updates tree matches release tree,
> > meaning no unwanted/unplanned changes get queued in updates tree.
> > 
> > So if yo want to submit anything to updates_testing, you need to commit
> > the changes in updates tree and then submit.
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> Are you sure about that?  I had pushed taglib to updates_testing in Cauldron
> before the release and after SVN was branched the update was already in SVN.
> 
> I think the branch was generated from releases/ but that includes anything that
> was built, whether it went to release or updates_testing.

Ah it seems your are right, the branch was created from the commit of
the latest markrelease. And markrelease is also done for packages in
cauldron updates_testing repository.