Possible "stage" token for SCALLYWAG builds

[Ken Brown]

On 2/16/2023 3:31 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 15/02/2023 21:48, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Jon,
>>
>> When building TeX Live (once a year), I have to build texlive, 
>> asymptote, and all the texlive-collection-* packages.  I currently 
>> can't use SCALLYWAG to do the builds because these packages need to 
>> all be deployed at once.  So I have to build them all locally, upload 
>> them to my staging area, and then upload !ready files, one for x86_64 
>> and one for noarch.
>>
>> It would be convenient for me if SCALLYWAG would accept a "stage" 
>> token that would upload the files to my staging area without deploying 
>> them. Then I could let SCALLYWAG do the builds, and I could upload the 
>> !ready files when everything is staged.
>>
>> If I'm the only maintainer who would find this useful, then I can 
>> continue doing it the way I always have.  But maybe others would find 
>> it useful too.
> 
> I'm not opposed to adding a some feature to support this if needed, but 
> from the way you are describing it, this sounds more like a constraint 
> that the dependency solver should be aware of.
> 
> (just because texlive-2023 and texlive-collection-foo-2023 are made 
> available to download at the same time, doesn't mean that they always 
> end up installed together, as the user might alter the version of one or 
> the other)
> 
> If they really must be kept in lockstep to work correctly, then there's 
> at least a couple of ways of doing that:
> 
> * give texlive an additional provide, such as texlive_2023, and make 
> everything that requires it, require that (something similar is done 
> with perl and perl modules)
> 
> * make things which require texlive do so with a version constraint like 
> 'requires: texlive (>= 20230000), texlive (<20240000)' (in theory this 
> works, but I have no doubt that a bug will emerge when someone tries to 
> use it, and ofc, it relies on the range of future versions which are 
> compatible being correctly known in advance)

Thanks for the suggestions.  I think I should be able to make things 
work with one or both of your ideas.

Ken