Freeze policy for F9 fixes [was Re: FC9 and NetworkManager]

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 19:11:13 UTC 2008


Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 
>> Below is a list of the 246 packages in dist-f9 that have a newer version
>> in f9-final - i.e. these builds aren't currently going to make it into
>> F9 final.
>>
>> It's worth checking that you've had everything tagged that should be
>> tagged.
> 
> That sounds essential for packages to be shipped on CD or DVD.
> 
> For all packages which are NOT shipped on CD or DVD, however, I can't 
> see much difference whether the user's yum downloads the required rpm 
> files from the "fedora" repository or the "fedora-updates" repository.
> 
> So, for my non-CD/DVD packages, I don't need to care much about whether 
> a certain package update makes it into f9-final or not, right?
> 
You don't need to care as much but there are still cases that may 
matter.  Third parties could very well want to create DVDs of the whole 
Fedora 9 final tree (and may not put updates  on the DVD) so there is 
that to consider.

-Toshio




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