nightly snapshot for CURRENT ?

[Glen Barber]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 07:16:47PM -0500, Clay Daniels wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 2:48 PM Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >  Hello all,
> >
> >  I've just hit again something that I've hit (and probably others too)
> > often.
> >  If a change in base break some ports and it's snapshoted in the txz
> > available at download.freebsd.org, you need to wait a week for the next
> > tarball to be available.
> >  Since poudriere uses the tarball when you setup a jail it means that
> > the only solution you have is to recreate your jail by building it, and
> > since building world nowdays is very expensive that delay your work too
> > much.
> >  Would it be possible to generate the tarballs every day instead of
> > every week ? At least for tier-1 arches.
> >
> 
> At first I thought you were referring to the weekly snapshots packaged as
> install images:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/
> 
> But I think you are talking about the snapshots of each part, like base,
> kernel, ports. src, etc to use as a roll your own install like:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/arm64/13.0-CURRENT/
> 
> From my selfish perspective as a weekly installer of the regular Thursday
> image or iso of 13.0 Current, I would hate to lose the pre-rolled
> installer, and I think there are probably others like me. As long as you
> keep the weekly install snapshots, it will not affect folks like me. I must
> say that what you want to do is how NetBSD does their daily current
> snapshots, and they do not even offer pre-rolled install images.
> 
> But you are a real developer and I'm just a retired guy playing with his
> hobby, so go ahead and do what you think is best for you.
> 

I agree with exactly with your point here, which is why I would like to
back-burner this topic until next week.  Just FWIW.

Glen

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