Yum-presto (deltarpms) ready for testing.

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 29 01:11:05 UTC 2007


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 06:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Pretty good savings and the system seems to be functioning as expected 
>> in my limited testing. At this point it might be useful to put the 
>> plugin in the repository atleast in the devel branch and get more 
>> mirrors using the drpms for wider testing. We should consider having 
>> this plugin enabled and installed by default for Fedora 7 release.
> 
> While I'm very much in favor of getting it out and more easily available
> to people, there's no way we should make this the default for Fedora 7
> at this point.
> 
> Please see the definition of "feature freeze" :-)

I was kind of expecting someone to jump on that. Feature freeze doesn't 
apply to new packages in Fedora Extras till test 4. If installing a 
package by default from Fedora Extras requires a exception to the 
feature freeze please consider this as my exception request to release 
engineering.

Rahul




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