On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:35:27 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I've run been running Fedora since FC5 and I have never seen an > update problem like this before. Congratulations! ;o) This incident is just one of many. It has happened before several times, with Firefox and with other packages. Firefox affects almost everyone, though. Interestingly, for Fedora 8 there was an attempt at rebuilding all dependencies and publishing them at once, as a single update (see https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/firefox ), and that has been done before. For F8, only one pkg slipped through (evolution-rss). For F9, only a few packages were rebuilt actually (as can be seen at above url, too). It's a workflow problem, a communication problem, a resource problem, and a policy problem. The firefox maintainer can't be blamed if other packages cause trouble because they create a strict dependency on a specific firefox version. Semi-automated rebuilds of dependencies might help, if the spec files were specially crafted to not require any manual editing at all (and in the case of a dependency on firefox would pick up the new firefox version automatically). Currently, however, a new package is not available in the builtroots unless it's pushed to the stable repo or release engineers add it on demand). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
