182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Mon May 11 19:04:16 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:57:34AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 14:35 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> "until they've been in the newer Fedora first" doesn't work with the
> newer fedora release media is a static pile of packages.
> 
> Your suggest would lead to not allowing F10's package versions to /ever/
> be newer than what Fedora 11 ships with at GA.

I guess epochs are the only way to solve that then.




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