FC3 -> FC4 Upgrade? (was Re: reducing distribution CD count)

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Feb 25 16:15:24 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 15:56 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 10:52 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> >So the way I see it here are the items needed to make extras work for
> >fc4:
> >
> >1. branch fc3 off of devel in extras cvs
> >2. get release updates in extras cvs spec files
> >3. build world
> >4. look for things that break
> >5. wash, rinse, repeat.
> >
> 6. Add support to anaconda for multiple repositories (planned for FC5)
> 
> >What we don't need right now is a lot of fatalism.
> 
> What we need is to do it in a controlled fashion; not just dump random
> packages when a release is imminent. Doing it in rawhide just after the
> release of FC4 would make sense, and then it will be fine in FC5.

Packages have been removed in every release. This isn't new.

-sv





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