On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:35:37AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/17/2010 04:59 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > The problem with using a VM created using the latest unstable Fedora > > is that the latest unstable Fedora might not be working. Perhaps we > > could always build Fedora n+1 on top of Fedora n. > > > > Rich. > > > > What some do is keep several build trees - at least 2 - (say B0, B1, > B2 ) - let current rawhide be B2. > > use B2 to build B3 - if it succeeds then move current rawhide to B3 > otherwise it remains at B2. Just because you manage to build a kernel, or even manage to boot a kernel, doesn't mean it really works. We really need all the testing that goes into a full Fedora release before we trust what is built from that, which is why my suggestion of building Fedora N+1 on Fedora N. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
