Hello,
For quite some time now Fedora Unity has been doing these Re-Spins,
which primarily just included all the updated packages for what had been
released for a Fedora X or Y.
With one of our previous Re-Spins, we had successfully ported a fix from
anaconda's development back into F8 stock anaconda, bumped the release
number and used it for our Re-Spin. The fix we backported had to do with
glibc.i686 and openssl.i686 being used during upd-instroot instead of
glibc.i386 and openssl.i386, and with help and advice from Chris Lumens
we decided we could backport the fix without too much hassle.
Today, another issue occurs with libXcomposite not being pulled in
during the graphical installer image compose stage (upd-instroot), while
mini-wm does require it to even run at all. This means attempting a
graphical install will now fail when including the updates/ repository.
Right at this moment we have included another fix in anaconda which is
supposed to resolve that issue too -we'll be running even more extensive
tests on our Re-Spins to verify we haven't broken anything else, but the
point I'm trying to raise here is something different.
These fixes we apply (and not release to updates/ as obviously we
can't), are now not made available to anyone else composing Fedora 8
[1], which kind of eliminates Re-Spin, Re-Factor, Re-Mix or whatever it
is you would want to call it. I'm sure you'll appreciate that /me being
upstream for one of those compose tools I strongly feel for getting the
fixes I apply out there to the general public, preferably via upstream
anaconda and all that is Fedora (updates/, koji, bodhi, etc).
How would you, anaconda development team, feel for getting fixes into
stable branches and updates being pushed to the appropriate repositories?
Thank you in advance,
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
[1] Of course the fixes are available, after all we're GPL compliant,
they're just not in the Fedora Infra..
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