Re: Alsa-utils update broken

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:38:37 +0000
Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 February 2012 18:16:40 Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:45:11 -0500
> > 
> > Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Huh? None of that junk is in updates today, that's why people
> > > find it broken all the time. The test system using the staging
> > > repo can either run "yum update" with no errors, or it can't.
> > > If it gets no errors, the staging repo becomes the updates
> > > repo. If it does get errors, the updates repo is left alone
> > > until the staging repo gets fixed and everyone who pushed
> > > an update since the last time updates was working gets mail
> > > with the yum update transcript.
> > 
> > It sounds simple enough... but:
> > 
> > Whats on the test system? Everything?
> 
> Yes, everything. Actually, we would need one test system for each
> arch, but that's not a problem.

You can't install everything. 

> > It can't have all packages
> > installed due to some conflicting (deliberately, or due to bugs).
> 
> I never understood why there are conflicting packages in the first
> place? When a distro has two packages which cannot be installed
> simultaneously, it's a packaging bug, and should be fixed.

Examples: 

fedora-logos vs generic-logos
astronomy-bookmarks vs fedora-bookmarks
etc

Anyhow, this isn't going to work IMHO... 

Do feel free to talk with autoqa folks and ask to help or offer your
suggestion. 

kevin

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