[Nix-dev] glib-2.30 again

Michael Raskin 7c6f434c at mail.ru
Thu Mar 15 16:22:14 CET 2012


>Hi!
>
>I've asked to add glib-2.30-take2 branch to hydra 3 times. When I asked on 
>IRC, Rob asked me if I've already defined a small subset of packages to 
>build.
>
>First, I never been told to do it.

Seems to be a standard practice of a few similar branches that was not
documented&

>Second, it makes no sense to build only a few packages on glib upgrade. 
>Every package that depends on glib may fail. A few packages that do not 
>depend on glib will add no overhead to hydra since their builds will be 
>cached from the trunk jobset.

Well, it does make sense to check that a few things build, not to spend 
time on getting very similar errors many times.

After that, tested package set will grow, of course...

>So, I ask again. Could you please add this branch to hydra?






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