Repo Suggestion

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Mon Nov 5 14:52:34 UTC 2007


On 05.11.2007 15:24, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> Last week I tried moving to updates-testing in order to test latest KDE
> on F7.  The resulting kernel update was mismatched with kernel-devel so
> I could not install the nvidia drivers.  My suggestion is this.  Would
> it be possible to segregate updates according to package type (similiar
> to the SUSE buildservice) or even just along the lines of Desktop
> (KDE/GNOME/etc and deps) and System( kernel etc.)  so testing bleeding
> edge packages from one package group won't break other system packages?

That's IMHO the wrong way forward.

The real solution is to build kmods in livna for testing. That is
unlikely to happen. But it's my plan for rpmfusion, as we'll use the
current Fedora push scripts there, which make dealing with a testing
repo much easier.

CU
knurd




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