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Author: Merlijn Wajer
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To: Jaromil, devuan developers internal list
CC: Ivaylo Dimitrov
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] Building derivative distros on the Devuan Jenkins CI
Hi,

On 14/06/17 18:25, Jaromil wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, parazyd@??? wrote:
>
>>>> A Devuan repository generated using this instance is living and
>>>> constantly being updated here: http://amprolla.parazyd.cf/merged
>>>
>>> using it already on two machines, no flaws!
>>
>> The only thing that worries me is what happens when there is a lot of
>> traffic and if `apt update` will seem broken if an update is done while
>> a merge is in progress.
>
>
> of course this is a problem also with the current amprolla and that
> lapse of time between updates is only reduced, but still there. I
> understand your code further reduces that possibility?


How about performing a new merge in a different directory (if you want
to reuse a part of the old state, cp/rsync it), and once the merge is
done, simply rename the directories? Those operations are supposed to be
atomic, so that should minimise this risk/downtime.

>> For maemo we were told we will be using the Devuan CI, not hosting our
>> own. I am not sure if this is related to us?
>
> I believe we can use the Devuan CI for Maemo, DECODE and eventually
> other projects that are directly contributing to Devuan or come from
> developers that are contributing to Devuan.


Great.

Cheers,
Merlijn