On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:20:16PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2007 21:15:49 Axel Thimm wrote: > > That was one of the three options ;) > > > > I think a security-updates would not be bad, but maybe not in this > > cycle, there's lot to do in short time and having a Fedora > > enterprise-like stable branch with security updates isn't Fedora's > > typical usage scenario. > > It's a tough thing to provide, and it would require anybody building a > security update to build in two collections, potentially having multiple > branches per release, one for "head" and one for "security", etc.. I think > it's totally outside the scope of the Fedora project. I don't think it would require to build twice or open up several branches, though, once against release & other security updates would be enough. This assumes of course that FX at the end of its life is still (mostly) *backwards* (!) compatible to FX at release time. Fedora's pace and release cycle are balanced to not allow this to happen. For example for F7 we even dropped mass-rebuilds, because we assumed that not only FC6+updates is compatible to FC6 w/o, but even to F7. While dropping mass-rebuilds was a mistake, this at least demonstrates that the Fedora model is not supposed to become backwards incompatble with itself within a release. So the implementaion would be just another tag in koji. The maintainer would have to fire a `make build-security' to have koji shove the build into the proper tag which would inherit only release and not updates. updates-candiates etc. would inherit from security. In fact it looks like koji's model has already been planned to allow for this :) Still let's make it an F9 feature to properly investigate in a 6 month cycle, and even on F9 I wouldn't make it a high-priority item. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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