Re: tagging of non critical path package into F-12?

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a badger gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:59:13AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Conrad Meyer <cemeyer u washington edu> wrote:
>> > If they're not on any of the official spins, what benefit does tagging them
>> > into dist-f12 provide over having them as updates? (Pushing updates is the
>> > suggested approach unless there's some reason it won't work in your case.)
>>
>> Because it allows me to test them as part of what will become the F-12
>> Moblin remix spin and allows others to test them rather than me having
>> to setup a separate repository so I can test how the interact with the
>> rest of the Moblin packages in Fedora.
>>
> Does the old network-manager-netbook prevent people from getting onto the
> network?  If so, it seems important to make sure the fixed version goes into
> the release repositories.

Yes, in fact it doesn't even run. That's why it seems that all the
various NM vpn plugins had to be recompiled as well.

Peter