On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:36:13 +0200 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > Again, you're extrapolating way too far from a single problem case. > > The problem is simply that we have the xorg-x11-drivers metapackage > > which requires every single X driver and is in the critpath. > > There's various ways we could adjust this so it's no longer the > > case. It's hardly something that renders an entire policy invalid. > > Another example for how the critical path policy breaks things: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firstboot-1.113-4.fc14 > This update adds support for xfwm4 and openbox to the firstboot code. > Updates for those 2 window managers: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfwm4-4.6.2-2.fc14 > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openbox-3.4.11.2-4.fc14 > which add the virtual firstboot(windowmanager) Provides have already > been pushed to stable! So now we have 2 WMs satisfying firstboot's > dependencies, but not actually supported by its code. The result: the > Xfce and LXDE spins will be outright BROKEN. (And it's not my fault, > I only did the firstboot build and update requests, the other 2 > packages were pushed by cwickert.) Xfce at least will not be. ;) I have not been able to do an install and test firstboot here yet, but I can over the weekend. The Xfce update does not much in the end though, so I don't think it's at all urgent. > I CANNOT push the firstboot update which UNBREAKS those 2 spins > because of the update policy. So instead of preventing breakage, the > policy CAUSES breakage! How can it fail more spectacularly for you to > finally realize it's a failure? Is there any way you could try to not be such a negative ball of energy? I suppose not. > To all proventesters: please +1 that update, EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T > TESTED IT, we need to get out of this impasse! Please don't. Please test the updates properly and add karma when you have. kevin
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