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Subject: Re: Setup/prev/curr/test/metapackages/another screen/etc
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:22:07 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20020327044009.GA20971@redhat.com> (Christopher Faylor's
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Christopher Faylor <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> writes:

> I really wish we had never even come up with the concept of
> prev/curr/test.  Maybe the prev release should be a completely separate
> release, ditto test.  You choose it early on in the setup process and
> have setup.exe select from.

I'm all for this.  Of course, the separation can be implemented in
different ways.

> test/latest
> test/contrib
>
> curr/latest
> curr/contrib

Why not keep the directory structure simple, and have eg,
setup-test.ini, setup-curr.ini, setup-prev.ini.  That way no tarballs
need to be moved/copied from test to curr after found stable.  Also,
you'll want test to be afull release (ie, include 'curr' packages for
packages that don't have a test version).

Jan.

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