Re: RPM version goes backward in Rawhide

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On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:19 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On 7/27/11 2:03 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > 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.

 distro-sync also helps, and is a bit more generic.

> We are trying very hard to kill the notion that "rawhide may eat 
> babies".  It's non-productive.

 Sisyphean task ... IMO.

>   There are multiple ways to throw 
> baby-eating updates over the wall for testing before they get into 
> rawhide.  Stop treating it like a dumping ground.

 But at some point you have to commit. You have to have a place all the
updates go first, currently that's rawhide. It's been rawhide for ~20
years, it seems like a better idea for it to continue to be rawhide and
just create a "tanned" repo. (or multiple ones) that eats less babies.

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