On 02/27/2010 04:21 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 26 February 2010 22:54, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> - If stable pushes were more restricted, perhaps that would get us more >> testing? If someone required a newer version and could easier >> install/test from updates-testing and provide feedback, don't we all >> win? Perhaps we could have PackageKit/yum say "you have the latest >> stable version of foo, but foo-2.0 is in updates-testing, would you >> like to test it and provide feedback? > > I had PK code to do that, but the check for updates took way too long, > as the updates-testing repo had to be enabled, the primaries > downloaded (and maybe the file lists too), updates resolved and then > disabled again, in ADDITION to the normal updates check. The package > manager is just too slow to get PackageKit data to make such a thing > work without making the user wait an extra 30 seconds. > > If we could speed up the dep checking and downloading, I agree it > would be better for usability, and the exposure of updates-testing > generally. > This sounds interesting, was this a plugin or configuration setting? Could this be something people can opt-in to at first? -- Jeroen -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
