On Wednesday 11 July 2007 06:35:49 David Woodhouse wrote: > If a partially-failed build gets pushed, we may have to make the > architectures on which it failed use the _older_ version of the package, > rather than losing the package from the repository entirely. Otherwise, > you end up with thinks like kernel-headers going missing and screwing > the whole system whenever a kernel fails to build. Things _used_ to work > like this, until relatively recently. They stopped because it led to a lot of weird package situations and mixed results. It was not a very good situation, it only made you /think/ you were moving on correctly when you really weren't and should have rebuilt everything with the new version once it was fixed anyway instead of keeping going. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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