On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 17:27:44 +0100 simone@ wrote:

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 08:21:10PM +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

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fetching from repository by revision or tag should produce predictable results, just the same as tarballs (as opposite to fetching from trunk or branches).

True, but some extra work for the packager (as in publishing a snapshot) will discourage too much frequent updates ;-)

Packages in core/opt could be bumped every X amount of time, like say bump once every week. Contrib ones should be whenever the maintainer pleases, say a new feature is added one day and the next another, he should be able to bump and test as he wishes in contrib. In my opinion, snapshots of cvs/svn are just a bad idea, some of the time snapshots might not even work (I've used upstream snapshots that have been busted before). -- ~predatorfreak GnuPG Public key: http://pred.dcaf-security.org/dcafsec-pub-gpgkey.asc