Re: RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

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On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:58:49 -0500
Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> seth vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> > On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:28:58 -0500
> > Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 13:17 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > 
> > > > If the issue was only 'newer is better' then rpm can easily get
> > > > around it. Hell, so can yum, now.
> > > 
> > > But koji, createrepo and such can't, right?
> > 
> > 
> > createrepo is version agnostic. It cares not at all.
> > 
> > koji can build whatever, too.. I'm not sure how those are related
> > here.
> 
> Well, on the koji side there are build concerns, but that's somewhat
> separate from giving users something they can stay on stably.
> 
> We don't ship in a way that easily allows this though, now.
> Admittedly, this is due to the sheer *amount* of stuff involved in
> just maintaining single versions of things, and how much that would
> jump if we started having multiple versions available all the time.
> That being said, as long as we're willing to take the hit in disk
> space & repodata size, and we're willing to nuke deltas from orbit
> (they won't scale to this, sorry), we could certainly support having
> multiple versions of everything available for easier rollback.
> 
> Bill

Bill,
 provided the above is not an unfunded mandate - then yes - I think
you're right. I don't think we could do it w/o money.

-sv
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