Yum repo compatibility

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Fri Nov 5 14:07:29 UTC 2004


On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:48:12 +1100, Colin Charles wrote:

> Don't forget to add a link to
> http://www.fedora.us/wiki/RepositoryMixingProblems

That page also explains why fedora.us cannot guarantee compatibility with
other repositories, quoted below for completeness and as food for
discussion. The paragraph is unchanged since April 25th, 2003.

    The Fedora.us project has made a decision that we cannot guarantee
    compatibility with other repositories because it is unmaintainable for
    these reasons:

    * The only way to avoid package conflicts when using multiple
      repositories is to completely avoid publishing packages that
      somebody else packages. This is obviously not an option because it
      would be too limiting for the Fedora project.
    
    * Coordination among two or more repositories for compatibility would
      be far too difficult and incur much greater overhead. Updates would
      often involve multiple repository owners working in coordinated
      development and simultaneous publishing in order to prevent user
      breakage. This is a huge amount of extra development overhead.
    
    * Users may also have any arbitrary mix of repositories, creating an
      unsupportable testing nightmare.

For anyone, who seeks for comments from fedora.us leadership, fedora-devel-list
might be much more suitable.

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