RFC: best way to fix the regular yum dependency problems with add-on packages from 3rd party repositories

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Aug 4 17:25:32 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 18:10 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> That why I didn't suggest to use the build date and mentioned to use "48 
> or 72 hours after the problems was hit for the first time". That of 
> cause would need to be managed on the client (e.g. for each broken dep 
> write down somewhere when the problem showed up; if the same problem 
> shows up with the same packages 72 hours later then boil out to make 
> sure the user gets aware of the issue).

And what about when said build has spent a number of days in -testing,
and finally goes out to -final, then the build date is quite old, but
would be 'hit for the first time' by a larger number of people.

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Jesse Keating
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