Ready for new RPM version?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Mar 4 00:40:09 UTC 2009


Jon Masters wrote:
> My answer is "it depends". I'm trying to give examples of reasons why
> you wouldn't run rawhide, or why you might use a virtual machine, etc.
> The point is, it is wrong to say "all developers must run rawhide".

I'm not saying that (actually I still run F9 on this machine), but I _am_
saying that installing Rawhide packages on a stable release is in general
not expected to work.

There are of course plenty of solutions - VMs, outsourcing testing to
somebody else, rebuilding packages from SRPM etc. - but just installing the
Rawhide package is one of the least reliable ones.

        Kevin Kofler




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