On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:47 -0800, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 16:55 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > A. In my experience, 1 out of 2 rawhide installs break due to missing > > dependencies - and spending four hours (and ~1+GB of bandwidth) just to > > watch Anaconda choke on missing pygtk package is very frustrating. > > If that is a frequent problem for you, I highly recommend mirroring > whatever you are interested in locally. > > David > > I'm not passing judgment, I understand that what I'm proposing means adding additional workload to RH/FC personal but your answer raising a philosophical question, does Fedora have a vest interest in -helping- people test Fedora test/beta/rawhide/etc. (By lowering the bar) If Fedora doesn't want/need additional testers, then a "mirror the files locally" solution is sufficient. if Fedora -does- want attract more testers (and in the long run, users), then Fedora should consider spinning rawhide ISO every time the rawhide build reaches minimal level of integrity (Read: no missing packages) More-ever, I re-raise my suggestion to use normal software terms (Alpha, beta, RC) instead of using the enigmatic "test release" - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
