On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 13:46 -0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
To truly take advantage of a distributed system like
arch you need use make use of features like branching
in a heavy way which if frowned upon by cvs.
I suspect we would end up with something like conary
if we design a build system on top of arch.
I should investigate Conary further. My understanding though is that
it's a much larger change than what we're discussing (e.g. you can't use
existing .spec files), and while it has some similar goals in some
areas, it isn't exactly the same thing.
In particular, it focused on maintaining a delta from OS-distributed
binary RPMs and high-level binary RPM management, whereas we're more
discussing simply improving the development process for SRPMs.
Still though, it seems pretty interesting.