Publisher tool option to only change the database, not the archive

[Celso Providelo]

This option should allow the user to run publisher script in a kind of "archive-dry-run", i.e., the only the database will get modified at the end of the process the package archive will remain the same or would be dispensable. This option would be very useful for buildfarm tests and other preliminary process until we get satisfied with the job performed by our set of tools and also publisher itself should be able to recover the package archive to the normal state after several runs in this mode, since all the history will be perfectly stored in the database. Does it make sense ?

[Daniel Silverstone (dsilvers)]

Yep, it's on my TODO. I will hopefully get around to it once I've finished the rest of the ftpmaster tools.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

I think this is done already, and if not, as the driver was for testing, will close - its not something we intend to schedule for itself.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Julian says this would be a dangerous option to have, and that this is YAGNI.