Suggestion Next Release

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:07:24AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 16:21 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:41:59AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > Of course there's a bit of chicken & egg problem here. Users won't notice
> > the speed/memusage improvements during the big update from F8 to F9 (if 
> > doing a live in-place upgrade) because that will be done using the F8 
> > version of YUM. One of the interesting features of the RHN client was
> > that the first thing it did was look to see if there was an update of 
> > itself, apply that and then re-exec itself to do the rest of the upgrade.
> > So the bulk of work for any package upgrade was always done with latest
> > update client.
> 
> So you think we should push yum 3.2.13 (or so) back to F8?

I'm not really in a position to make that judgement call. Depends how stable
you think the new code is - if the risk of regression is small enough, then
I'm sure the speed improvements would be welcomed.

Dan.
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