status of up2date and rhn-applet

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Sat Nov 26 18:34:19 UTC 2005


On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:45:27PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> Agreed, though at the same time, -testing doesn't get anywhere near
> the amount of testing that we'd like it to. A lot of really nasty
> bugs only seem to get found after we've moved them to updates-final.
> Making it as easy as possible to enable those, whilst displaying
> a warning is definitly in our best interest imo.

Making sure updates-testing has repo closure may scare fewer people 
away from it.  I keep updates-testing enabled on all my non-critical 
boxes, and saw recently e.g.:

Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.1 is needed by package libtool




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