[haiku-development] Re: Package Management: Merge Imminent

  • From: Joseph Prostko <joe.prostko@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:25:12 -0400

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 04:07 AM, Joseph Prostko wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This seems
>>> to be a good time to merge this rather long-running branch back into the
>>> master and thus expose it to a wider audience.
>>>
>>> Our plan is to wait a few more days, give everyone time to raise
>>> objections,
>>> and then do the deed.
>>
>>
>> Are you and Oliver still on target to get the merge done before BG?  I
>> only ask since I would ideally like to have my Haiku machines imaged
>> with the merged code in time for the Ohio Linuxfest.
>
> I was hoping to do the merge later today, but there are still a few open
> issues. There's the CD boot issue (currently looking into it), a few missing
> details wrt. package activation (handling of settings files, running post
> installation scripts), and Pe not working on x86-64 (Oliver is looking into
> that). Not sure, if we'll be able to address all issues today. So maybe the
> merge will be done on the train to BeGeistert. :-)

Well, at least you'll have something to do on the train in that case.  :)

> I last merged the master into the PM branch 2 months ago, so we aren't too
> much out of sync. I can probably at least do another merge today, so even if
> I didn't manage to merge the other way before BeGeistert you could just
> build an up-to-date Haiku with package management from the PM branch.

Sure, if you get around to that, that would be great. If not, I'll
figure out something satisfactory.  :)

Thanks!

- joe

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