Module submission - pcb-cvs

[Dennis Veatch]

On Monday 04 June 2007 05:39:25 pm Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> Monday 04 of June 2007 22:17:07 Duncan Gibson wrote:
> > > but which other way is around to keep cvs-modules up to date?
> >
> > Surely if there is a particular cvs-module that you want to keep
> > as up-to-date as possible you can copy it to your zlocal and set
> > the UPDATED field to give you the rebuild schedule that you want.
> > Then you get updates when you want them without forcing everyone
> > else to rebuild more often than they need.
> >
> > That's the power of Lunar: you can tweak the modules as you need
> > as long as you do it in your own zlocal.
>
> There is no need to use zlocal. Just lin it whenever you want. This task
> can be automated using cron or started during boot.
>
> Looking so far the most reasonable idea comes from Auke.
> However I will be opting for giving random update day by module maintainer
> instead of 1st day of every month because of:
> 1) maintenance reason: it is easier to handle single update faults in a
> month instead of plenty of them on one day. The automatic cvs-like updates
> may fail sometimes because there is no human control during packaging,
> 2) I'm a fan of international wires offload by splitting traffic when
> possible and mirroring, you know keep the net clean and so on...
> 3) single updates can be easily reported and traced by users. The report:
> "It broke today" and a huge list of updated modules looks as a nightmare to
> me.
>

Um we don't care if a cvs/svn module breaks. The only thing I would be 
interested in knowing is if the SOURCE_URL changed, or they switched from cvs 
to svn. Anything else the user is on their own, IMO>

> Saying about random date I'm thinking about Auke's UPDATED=`date -u
> +%Y%m01` where 01 is replaced with different number 01...28 (no more
> because of February) per 'live' module.
>
> Zbigniew
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