F11 Proposal: Stabilization

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:12 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:04 -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> >>> Couldn't both the above be solved by 'subscribing' to those sets of
> >>> packages via say PackageKit?  That way when PackageKit goes to look for
> >>> updates, it only asks for updates for those particular packages.  When
> >>> you update, if anything else is needed to satisfy newer builds of those
> >>> packages they can be pulled in.
> >>>
> >>> Of course, what we'd likely see is a combo of "Give me all security
> >>> updates" and also "Give me updates only for these sets of packages".
> >>> The interesting question is how to design UI around the subscriptions.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> I think I like this.
> >>
> >> In the case of "I just want a newer OpenOffice" and don't touch
> >> everything else, that's already covered by a yum install today -- but we
> >> do need something for the update case(s).
> >
> > The upside here is that it's purely client side code.  We don't have to
> > change anything about how we prepare and publish updates.

> or you want to list a set of apps you want newer versions of and as little 
> else as possible?

> yum update really means yum update openoffice\* somestuff\*  \
>       my_favorite_pkg\*
I feel, you just discovered what apt/apt-get calls "package pinning"

Ralf