Repocopying?

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 00:26 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 17:03 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 23:58 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > Do we have a feature or process where when doing updates, one could
> > > request a build for let's say FC-4, and when that finishes, ask the FC-4
> > > packages to be copied to the devel repo as-is?
> > > 
> > > I'm going to update xemacs-sumo for FC-4 and devel, it's a pretty large
> > > package that could be exactly the same in both repos.  It feels somewhat
> > > silly to differentiate and rebuild for both in cases like this, and of
> > > course asking builds for both using the same NEVR is out of the
> > > question, and wouldn't probably even work.
> > > 
> > 
> > processor time is cheap
> 
> Sure, but everyone's bandwidth is not, nor is there heaps of it
> available everywhere.  The duplicate builds gain us nothing, and do
> inflict completely unnecessary upgrades for end users.

Fedora Development has already diverged greatly from FC4.  The most
noticable divergence is probably be GTK+ 2.7 and Gnome 2.11.  That means
that a package built on FC4 may or may not work on a system that is
tracking development.

Jeff

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