On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 00:45 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > It means people can go from Rawhide to the release without service > interruption. The way it is now, once the release is finalized, the mirror > list redirect of the release tree to Rawhide gets turned off (because > Rawhide moves on to the next release), but the Everything directory gets > opened up only a few days later, on the official release day. That means > people cannot install packages from the Everything repository (which can > also affect updates because they can add dependencies) for a few days. > > It also seems natural that, if Rawhide moves on to F13 early, the F12 branch > will get put directly into releases/12/Everything so the mirrors won't have > to sync everything again once the release becomes official. > > It shall also be noted that a certain distribution with a 'U' even opens up > the repository for the next release right after releasing the previous one, > they don't call their development repository "development", "rawhide" or > something like that, but with the release name of the next release. This is one of the things we hope to come up with a proposal to fix at our Fedora Activity Day this month. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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