On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:39:48PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jeffrey Ollie <jeff <at> ocjtech.us> writes: > > Refusing to bump a release number and re-tag because you don't want to > > "look stupid" is not a technical argument. > > Maybe, but it's a practical argument. > > > And before you ask, yes I've used force-tag before even though I know > > I shouldn't. Removing it will help me be a better package manager. > > No, it will make you a worse packager, as your Release tags will get > incremented for no reason. It is far far worse than this. If you made a mistake doing an update for Fedora 8, and have to bump the Release tag, its quite possible F8 will end up with newer N-E-V-R, than your F9 & rawhide builds breaking the upgrade path. So, now you have to re-build F9 and rawhide with pointless Release tag bumps too :-( Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
