On 4/10/07, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10.04.2007 08:23, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> The current thinking seems to be to just ignore them* but this is guaranteed >> to result in a lot of confusion. When end users do a distribution upgrade via >> yum or Anaconda, some of the packages might not have been updated to the >> Fedora 7 version due to incorrect packaging or other issues while the rest >> are packages which are deliberated not rebuild to avoid churn. Debugging a >> end user system with such a mix of packages is very painful. > > Dist tags considered harmful... :) RHEL 5 suffers from this same > syndrome, it has loads of packages tagged "fc6" which I could imagine > causing quite a bit of confusion as well. Yeah, they made it a FAQ already ;-) http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_10269.shtm
As a paying RHEL customer, this kind of upsets me. They can't take the time to ensure file-names are right on their flagship product. I realize it's mostly cosmetic, but many people who run RHEL are NOT good at Linux and need all the help they can get. I think dist tags should match the dist the package is used in. End of story. MIKE
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