On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:32 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: > http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/where_fedora_went_wrong.html > > Michael Schwendt has made a spirited and passionate response (thanks, > Michael) to Caitlyn's comments. > > Is there any substance to these comments? Well, rawhide is frequently broken/out of sync. I don't think we expect but so much there. I think Michael has a point about deps not being broken in any given repo. However, due to the different mgmt/deployment practices/behavior b/t extras and core I know there have been cases where one is out of sync with the other for a little while and then it takes the mirrors X amount of time to catch up - but in the mean time the user has a broken dep dangling. A couple of things we can do/are doing to ameliorate this: 1. the repo merger will help make keeping up with whatever just moved around easier 2. updates-testing for all repos will help 3. repoclosure running before updates are pushed - michael schwendt has done some great work to make this happen in extras but it needs to be happen distro-wide. I think once we have the merge done his code will be valuable there. 4. the --skip-broken plugin for yum probably needs to be merged into base yum. That would allow us a nice(r) way to fallback if there's a dep problem in any repo. that'd be my take. -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
