Re: Another great update

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2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski:
> 2010/3/7 Orcan Ogetbil:
>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> On 03/07/2010 07:17 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Then make it 3 months, 4 months... Leave it in testing forever if you
>>>> get too many complaints. But make it available for those who want it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> updates-testing should not be used for this purpose because among other
>>> things you might want to push a bug fix for the previous release that is
>>> more urgent and if we are doing this we need a separate update stream
>>>
>>
>> So? That is not a common situation and does not happen with most
>> packages. But you are right it does happen. Supporting a small "urgent
>> fixes" repo, OR being able to have multiple versions of one package in
>> updates-testing shouldn't be too hard.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I believe in that updates-testing should be extensively
>> used for such upcoming updates by (almost) everyone.
>>
>> The pros are obvious. What are the cons of this model?
>
> "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity"
>
> Now we got:
> fedora-updates
> fedora-updates-testing
>
> It's easy to add another repos:
> fedora-updates-urgent
> fedora-updates-really-urgent
> fedora-updates-not-really-urgent
> fedora-updates-next-year
>
> Adding additional repo _won't_ solve the problem. I only use packages
> from fedora-updates-testing from time to time - many regular users do
> the same thing. I bet that most users don't even know about this
> repo...
>

I only gave 1 small repo suggestion, not 4.

And as you obviously didn't finish reading my sentence, that is not
the only solution I proposed. Read again, there is a 0 additional repo
proposal too.

Orcan
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