On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 14:43 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:02:24PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100 > > Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package > > > is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to break a > > > system with Rawhide, if one installs the repo file, e.g. only to be > > > able to easily download the src.rpm files with yumdownloader or to > > > query it with repoquery, but not to actually install the unsigned > > > packages from it. > > > > How many folks do this? I suppose this is a downside... we could also > > ship it with default disabled, so you would need to install and then > > enable it. > > I guess the use of repoquery for rawhide is quite common for Fedora > developers who want to inspect the impact of updating their packages. > Also I guess at least the selective installation of some Rawhide package > might be quite common to verify bugfixes. IMHO developers and debuggers can install the additional package.. > Imho the danger of accidently breaking the system is a lot higher if > there is a package that will auto-destruct the system with the next yum > update than it is with the current setup, where a manual change of a > config file is required. You don't have to edit the config file, it's enough to run yum with --enablerepo=rawhide (or --enablerepo=* !). +1 for branching, with default disabled. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
