Hi All, So I saw a rpm update and a number of other builds today when dealing with various packaging bits. Checking the update [1] and reading the attached bug [2] I was a little shocked to find that "yum upgrade" between releases would be explicitly broken due to this feature. Yes, I know that it's not officially recommended as a means of upgrading and never been QAed it has been generally supported and expected to work [4] for as long as I can remember. The thing that is annoying me is that this change has not been explicitly mentioned in the "Feature" [3], it does no appear in the FAQ on the feature and I don't remember it ever being bought up in the discussions about the feature although I admit I probably have missed some of the discussion. Has this side effect of the feature been discussed at all? Can someone point me to a thread? Personally I'm not bothered about the location of binaries and don't wish to reopen that discussion, but yum upgrade is a feature I do use regularly as I'm sure a lot of others do as well. I feel it's a little disingenuous of the feature owners not to bring this component of the feature up, advertise it properly and include a large mention of it in the "Release Notes" section of the feature as it's surely something that is a FAQ and should be in the release notes section. I'm also very perplexed why this major change is landing so close to the freeze and branch with less than two weeks to Freeze and Branch and the feature isn't actually even in rawhide yet [5] as all the packages are still being built on a separate tag. Why do core features always have to land just before the branch to ensure we have mass breakage and the guarantee of a slip? This sort of change should be landing on rawhide just after the branch to ensure 9 months of development! Regards, Peter [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-0912/rpm-4.9.1.2-4.fc16.1 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760996 [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum [5] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=295486 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
