On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 15:47, salvatore wrote: > With regards to the different repositories out there, does bleeding imply > instability? Are packages obtained from a bleeding portion of a repository > prone to failure, or are they just the most recent version? > Does a package need a certain tenure in bleeding before being called stable? > > What about unstable? Are these similar to night (read: regular basis) > builds for those interested in before-final-release packages? > > Can anyone shed some light on the different definitions? Or is there an > RTFM I can beat myself with? This is not a question for the yum list. This is a question for the repository manager/provider. yum is just the program that can access the repositories, it does not handle grading them based on quality or stability of the packages. -sv
