pkgng 1.1 beta best way to make people tests

[Alexander Yerenkow]

2013/1/21 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>

> Hi all,
>
> As a first mail on this list, I want to open a discussion on what would be
> the
> best way to handle the beta phase of pkgng in the ports tree.
>
> We are about to enter in a beta phase and we want to add the beta to the
> ports
> tree so that people can test it easily. We also want the users to keep
> having
> the 1.0 as default.
>
> We have 2 possibilities here:
> 1- add WITH_PKGNG_DEVEL=yes to the actual ports-mgmt/pkg port switching
> the 1.0
> version to 1.1b1 a bit like WITH_NEW_XORG. bonus: really simple, can only
> be
> activated on purpose by the user.
>
> 2- add a ports-mgmt/pkg-devel with the new beta which will conflict with
> ports-mgmt/pkg.
>
> As a difficulty remember that the local.sqlite smoothly upgrade from 1.0
> to 1.1
> but cannot be switch backward.
>

In any case, can we at least have some script/tool to convert 1.1 to 1.0
DB, while in beta? I think this approach could save lives.
And with upcoming versions, ability to switch back to stable version would
bring more testers.


>
> So far I plan a two month beta/rc phase for pkg 1.1 I think the code is
> quite as
> robust as the 1.0 branch is and should not bring too much surprises, of
> course,
> no date base release, it will be out when ready :)
>
> Regards,
> Bapt
>



-- 
Regards,
Alexander Yerenkow