On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:58:29PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I think think your proposal is the way we should be doing things. I think > we should get a lot more testers of the upcoming release with a model > like this. > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 18:58:08 -0700, > Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Rawhide as we know it, /pub/fedora/linux/releases/development/ will > > remain "rawhide". We may even change the path to say rawhide, just to > > catch things up and well I like keeping mirrors on their toes. Rawhide > > will be a repository of developmental and experimental packages. Things > > being worked on for the future. It will /not/ be an installable tree, > > rather it will just be a repository of packages, to be added on to an > > already stable "base", eg you'd install F12, and enable rawhide to test > > rawhide. This will significantly lower the complaints that "rawhide > > isn't installable". > > It would be nice to have a yum plugin were you install a specified package (or > packages) from rawhide and only pull in the absolute minimum number of packages > to satisfy dependencies from rawhide. As much as is allowed, dependencies > should be pulled from the base repo. If I update one package from rawhide, > I don't want to update all of it's dependencies to rawhide, only those that > absoultely have to be (based on minumum versions in requires). Isn't that what RPM deps already do? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
