On Tuesday 12 October 2004 23:00, ashish gawarikar wrote:

> The advantage of doing this is viz:
>
> 1. QA has to test one huge download and dont have to test different
> scenarios.

Downloading itself is hardly an issue. Believe me, we do enough support.


> 2. You exactly know what packages you are getting in this download

You can pin a dependency to a specific version. Say you have a meta-ebuild
mycompanysetup-1.0.1.ebuild and you pin it to depend on very specific 
versions of other ebuilds (up to the revision number).

> 3. You have to issue one-and-only-one command for upgrade

Updating this meta-ebuild will automatically update all dependencies as 
you have pinned down the versions you want. Note that ebuilds themselves 
(the build descriptions) are downloaded all together by rsync, or in case 
of a local overlay the way you decide to distribute it (CVS, subversion?, 
rsync). The source tarballs are checksummed and veryfied before use. 
Except the theoretical posibility of malice there is not much that can go 
wrong here. Just put the tarballs on a webserver and it works.

Paul

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