More FC6 update woes.

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 07:14:45 UTC 2007


On 04/07/07, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Michael Schwendt <mschwendt <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > F7 Updates are getting increasingly dilettantish.
>
> This is an FC6 update. The F7 version doesn't have these conflicts.

$ diff -u FC-6/kdemultimedia-extras.spec F-7/kdemultimedia-extras.spec
$

It's KDE 3.5.7 thrown out as a rushed mass-update to F7 and FE6, not
adapting to the differences in FC6's kdemultimedia compared with F7's
kdemultimedia.

> > Additionally, there are more EVR upgrade path issues as ever before.
> > %dist plus bodhi as a primary source for bad dreams.
>
> This will improve when F6 gets merged and F6 updates will have to go through
> Bodhi too. The #1 source of problems right now is that FE6 stuff gets pushed
> (almost) immediately whereas F7 updates don't.

*lol* The F7 test updates are missing even after weeks. Packagers
either don't know bodhi yet and are not aware of the new release
process hurdles. In other cases they bump release in older branches,
breaking the %dist helper.




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