Stable branches: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 22:54, 10 December 2013

Sisyphus is quite dynamic project which makes it hard to schedule and perform releases based on it. To overcome this system of branches was invented: Sisyphus is regularely branched creating a new repository which is then stabilized for several months. Resulting repository is called a branch and can be used as a basis for distributions and solutions.

Branch contents

Every branch is an APT repository containing source and binary RPM packages along with metadata.

Additionaly every branch has a bugzilla product for bugtracking and packages.altlinux.org representation.

Current branches

See p7/t7 and above via downloads; "p" (platform) ones are officially supported by ALT Linux Ltd and "t" (team) ones are supported by ALT Linux Team members.

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-[[Sisyphus]] is quite dynamic project which makes it hard to schedule and perform releases based on it. To overcome this system of ''branches'' was invented: Sisyphus is regularely literally ''branched'' creating a new repository which is then stabilized for a several months. Resulting repository is called a ''branch'' and used as a basis for distributives and solutions. After stabilization branches only incorporate security and critical feature fixes.
+[[Sisyphus]] is quite dynamic project which makes it hard to schedule and perform releases based on it. To overcome this system of ''branches'' was invented: Sisyphus is regularely ''branched'' creating a new repository which is then stabilized for several months. Resulting repository is called ''a branch'' and can be used as a basis for distributions and solutions.
 == Branch contents ==