repo layout for EPEL (Re: Initial Proposal for doing Enterprise Extras)

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Mon Sep 25 10:08:00 UTC 2006


Rahul wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
> 
>> Also, one point we need to still keep in mind is that *all* of these 
>> packages have already seen light+life on FedoraCore{something}, and 
>> there isnt any testing-repo there, so its pretty much anyone using the 
>> pkg, and doing his/her yum updates regularly, like every good child 
>> should, has been eaten/bitten/suckered by most of the bugs. { or do I 
>> live in false hope ? }
> 
> Fedora Core has a testing repository. Fedora Extras and EPEL should have 
> one too. Nobody uses the testing repository, so we will skip that 
> process is a lame idea.
> 

I agree, on the point of a testing repository. What I was trying to say, 
perhaps not clearly enough, was that since these packages would have 
already seen action via the FedoraExtras repo's, the criteria setup for 
moving from Testing to Stable repo's should take that into consideration.

- KB
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