Re: Can we do both testing->stable moves on the same day?

[Ville Skyttä <ville skytta iki fi>]

On Wednesday 04 June 2008, Michael DeHaan wrote:

> Actually I have an example of how this (not updating in parallel) can
> break folks.
>
> If someone is running an EL-5 cobbler server and is using koan on EL-4
> (or vice versa) sometimes I need to update them both to reflect an API
> change.     If both are set to yum update, the client and server can't
> talk to each other.

Just a general note/reminder, I don't use cobbler/koan myself nor know really 
anything about them and maybe this is already being observed with their 
updates:

Intrusive updates like the one described above should be done only for good 
reasons:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Package_maintenance_and_update_policy