Proposal: Rolling Release

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 11.11.2008 22:42, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 15:23 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Which repos have a chance to rebuild against new fedora libraries before 
>> they are publicly available so a user updating with both enabled won't 
>> experience conflicts?
> Every repo.  Our build roots are public and static repo locations are
> updated hourly with their contents.  It's all public, anybody in the
> would can access it.

As someone that takes care of a 3rd party repo I can mostly agree to 
this statement from Jesse. But there is one important thing that is not 
really foreseeable for the public: Pushes to the stable or testing 
updates repos.

They just happen suddenly out of the blue and I as 3rd party repo 
manager have no real chance to do push at exactly the same time. All a 
3rd party repo manager can do is to watch fedora-announce-list closely 
and push packages that have dependencies on specific Fedora packages 
(xine-lib-extras-nonfree, qmmp-plugins-freeworld, all kmods, some 
others) once he sees that Fedora did the push.

That is one of the big problems. Another one: Dependency problems due to 
mirror lags afaik confuse yum (at least on F8 and F9). Details can be 
found here:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-August/msg00041.html

CU
knurd