Reminder: Fedora Update Tips

[Warren Togami]

Tips for Fedora Package Maintainers when issuing updates.

1) Push or Revoke Updates-Testing
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https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/testing/F7
Please don't forget to deal with your packages sitting in 
updates-testing.  Some packages were sitting here for more than a month.

Your Updates Testing package may be marked as "Stable" if they are ready 
to be pushed as an official update.  If you want to cancel an update, or 
if it was superseded by a newer package, you will want to "Unpush" it.

2) EVR Version Problems
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Currently F7 uses Bodhi (the Fedora Updates System) while FE-6 uses the 
legacy Extras buildsystem.  This can sometimes create EVR promotion 
problems between the distributions.  Example:

1) foo-1.2.3-1.fc7
    foo-1.2.3-1.fc6
2) foo-1.2.4-1.fc7 is pushed to F7 updates-testing
    foo-1.2.4-1.fc6 is built for FE-6
3) FC6 version of foo is "newer" than foo in F7, because the FC6 package 
went directly into the repository while the F7 package is only in testing.

Suggested Workaround:
Build for FE6 only *after* the F7 update has been officially pushed.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com

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