On 04/15/2010 05:18 AM, Richard Ryniker wrote: > > Even though the Beta release is only two days old, a "yum update" > retrieved 499 packages to process. This surprised me (I guess Fedora > testers and developers are working quickly) - it would have been nice to > get a good part of this half-gigabyte of newer code into the Beta media. > I am sure there are multiple reasons for this; ours is an imperfect > world. > > An important reason why you see that many updates is because there is a freeze period for a while before the beta release process to focus on stabilization and getting a release out that meets the beta release criteria. During the freeze period, a very small number of specific updates are rolled in to fix the blocker bugs. A lot of the other updates that gets built meanwhile are batched and pushed out just after the beta release. These should be focused on important bugs and security fixes however. > After I removed the gupnp packages from the update set (this problem was > reported earlier on this list), the update was successful. There were > annoying delays (timeouts, I guess) of about one minute during update of > sendmail, and two minutes during cleanup of sendmail. The update process > was somewhat noisy. Here are relevent lines: > Please file bug reports on these. Rahul -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
