RFC: changing versioning of fedora-release in rawhide

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 14:50 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Josh Boyer (jwboyer at gmail.com) said: 
> > > That requires going to another repo/web page/irc client/source of information
> > > to figure out and download whatever that version is.
> > 
> > You can use koji's downloadbuild (or whatever it's called) without too
> > much trouble.  This is rawhide after all.  Not for the faint of heart.
> 
> Right, but you still have to know *what the old version is*. And that
> would still work for my proposal - what I don't understand is why we'd
> be wedded to the current practice of shipping intentionally broken repo
> files.

I'd go an alternate route -- let's instead have the mirrorlists redirect
to rawhide for versions like 8.90, etc and get rid of the separate
development repository.  If you want to jump versions, change your
fedora-release.  This then gives us some nice consistency 

Jeremy