182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Mon May 11 18:35:39 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:22:03AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 13:37 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Well, I see it as a well defined *targeted product* which happens to
> > be composed of packages.  It's the base from which other things can be
> > installed from the Internet.  What is the problem with "static pile of
> > packages"? (I have to admit to only skimming this thread)
> 
> Updates to the previous release will quickly become N-V-R "newer" than
> the static pile of packages, which renders your upgrade a bit... odd.

Why do we not force updates to Fedora X to always be N-V-R older than 
Fedora X+1?  We can use the Release tag to enforce this within a 
Version, and newer Versions shouldn't appear in older Fedora's until 
they've been in the newer Fedora first.




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