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#1 2011-04-01 08:52:00
- metre
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[SOLVED] Testing... or madly experimental? Questions
3 questions:
1) I feel curious about the testing repo and I want to contribute to the community testing it, but I have not so much free time for doing it, so, is the testing repo barely stable or after all can we consider it nearly as stable as not-testing repo?
2) What about community-testing?
3) Why doesn't exists extra-testing?
Thank you in advance!
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#2 2011-04-01 09:15:12
- karol
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Re: [SOLVED] Testing... or madly experimental? Questions
[testing] means it can eat you hamster, catch fire and you should keep it away from children. And I'm serious here, it's not an April 1st joke.
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#3 2011-04-01 09:27:46
- bangkok_manouel
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Re: [SOLVED] Testing... or madly experimental? Questions
i'm disappoint no one mentioned dinosaurs
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#4 2011-04-01 10:16:04
- Allan
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Re: [SOLVED] Testing... or madly experimental? Questions
The [testing] repo is where things go to be tested... most of the time, that testing is fine. Rarely, it leaves your computer unable to boot.
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#5 2011-04-01 10:30:01
- tomk
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Re: [SOLVED] Testing... or madly experimental? Questions
community-testing exists and should be used if you're using testing - the same applies to multilib.
core and extra packages are both tested in testing as required, so there is no need for extra-testing.
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#6 2011-04-02 13:52:25
- metre
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Re: [SOLVED] Testing... or madly experimental? Questions
Thank you, I will take a look at it
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#7 2011-04-07 15:22:15
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Re: [SOLVED] Testing... or madly experimental? Questions
If you do enable the testing repositories, make sure to subscribe to the arch-dev-public mailing list as that's where all warnings of (possible) incoming breakages are posted.
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#8 2011-04-07 21:05:06
- metre
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Re: [SOLVED] Testing... or madly experimental? Questions
If you do enable the testing repositories, make sure to subscribe to the arch-dev-public mailing list as that's where all warnings of (possible) incoming breakages are posted.
Thank you for your advice, I will be careful
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