Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 8 14:01:22 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 14:43 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:02:24PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100
> > Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> > 
> > > You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package
> > > is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to break a
> > > system with Rawhide, if one installs the repo file, e.g. only to be
> > > able to easily download the src.rpm files with yumdownloader or to
> > > query it with repoquery, but not to actually install the unsigned
> > > packages from it. 
> > 
> > How many folks do this? I suppose this is a downside... we could also
> > ship it with default disabled, so you would need to install and then
> > enable it. 
> 
> I guess the use of repoquery for rawhide is quite common for Fedora
> developers who want to inspect the impact of updating their packages.
> Also I guess at least the selective installation of some Rawhide package
> might be quite common to verify bugfixes.

IMHO developers and debuggers can install the additional package..

> Imho the danger of accidently breaking the system is a lot higher if
> there is a package that will auto-destruct the system with the next yum
> update than it is with the current setup, where a manual change of a
> config file is required.

You don't have to edit the config file, it's enough to run yum with
--enablerepo=rawhide (or --enablerepo=* !).

+1 for branching, with default disabled.
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org




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