Fedora EPEL Package Build Report 2007-08-14

rob myers rob.myers at gtri.gatech.edu
Wed Aug 15 21:30:23 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:25 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> rob myers wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 15:12 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >   
> >> What do you the rest of you think?
> >>     
> >
> > I don't want to deal with dep solving issues.  It is more important to
> > me for EPEL to be stable than to have the latest foo package.  That
> > said, perhaps there should be a process by which overwhelmingly
> > fantastic packages could make the transition from "testing" to "current"
> > independent of RHEL minor releases.  I'd prefer that to be the exception
> > rather than the rule.
> >   
> 
> Well, in theory, you as a user shouldn't have dep solving issues.  The 
> problem is getting our scripts to realize proper dep solving (which 
> includes logic and commands that we just aren't using now).

good point.  enhance the scripts, and i'll strike that part of my
concerns. ;)

rob.




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