22 Oct
2012
22 Oct
'12
8:42 p.m.
While using
GIT to store binary packages is not a good idea,
your general point is well taken. I take it most packagers would
not be able to use OBS or host the nightly build packages themselves?
What is OBS? Open Build Service? An idea. A quick search indicates only
about 10 distros are supported. My thinking is even when individuals wanted to host
packages, users with
each distro typically do not know packagers. How do typical users who want
to help know about testing packages? They would first look in the Trinity
web site.
A Wiki page with links perhaps?
Possibly the first step to this question is a link or
set of links at the
Trinity web site home page to "Unofficial Development Branch Testing
Packages" just under "For developers and alpha/beta testers."
Is the GIT repo "packaging" section available to host a testing package
set?
Due to its nature GIT is a very poor choice for hosting binary files of
any type, let alone binary files which would be expected to change
frequently. The packaging section of GIT could, however, store testing
versions of the text files used to build packages in addition to the
official versions.
Tim