Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving stability - checkpoints

[Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

One item I have not seen is the possibility of auto-rewinding something
like the libpng problem back to a working system.  CVS is a case in
point - when a build is broken, go back a version and build again. 
Williams checkpoint idea sounds similar to CVS in the way you can
specify versions.

Now this would be a *real* advance in taking some of the risk out of
bleeding edge for all users, average and developer.

BillK


On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 10:15, William McArthur wrote:
> [Sorry if this is a duplicate, I'm currently demonstrating a severe lack 
> of email skills.]
> 
> The other day there was a discussion on IRC about improving the 
> stability of the distro as a whole. The popular idea at the time was a 
> stability metric applied to each package based on a few things. The 
> following is my thoughts on how to improve the situation with minimal 
> developer effort.
> 
> First, I don't think the stability metric idea won't have it's desired 
> effect. The libpng problems would not be prevented with a stability 
> metric. The problem was not with the package specificlly but the 
> interaction between pacakges. Specifically packages that linked with 
> libpng and expected libpng-1.0.* .