On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:19:08 -0700, JK (Jesse) wrote: > >> On 7/27/11 2:03 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> > There is a big difference between "a package going backwards in its EVR >> > and staying there" and "a package getting untagged because it breaks koji >> > buildroot and with the plan to go forward in EVR as soon as the bug is >> > found and fixed". >> >> If it goes backwards to await a fix, that fix needs to be happening >> within the same day or so. > > Panu has mentioned that he will be looking into fixing this unexpected > breakage. If that isn't acceptable to you, feel free to provide a fix > faster. > >> Not prolonged so that updates fail on users' >> systems. > > Do they fail in this case? > Do you prefer rpm-build in koji buildroot to fail even longer? > An issue with rpm-build on Rawhide installations is minor compared with > Fedora's offical buildsys. > >> > In this case, the bad rpm-build broke koji builds, and since Rawhide >> > may eat babies, it can happen that Rawhide users need downgrade manually >> > while they have to wait for the fixed rpm-build. The proper fix would have been to just use epoch. People can call them evil all they want they are perfectly suitable for that kind of problems. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
