Ready for new RPM version?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 26 19:01:21 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:57 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> writes:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:24 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Yeah, it seems like F12 material.  Going with a beta version of critical
> >> infrastructure like RPM strikes me as sheer insanity.  Or have we
> >> learned nothing from how badly the still-in-progress RPM update was
> >> mismanaged?  These things need to be taken *slowly*.
> 
> > I do not think the still-in-progress rpm update was mismanaged at all.
> 
> > Back that claim up or don't make it.
> 
> The large number of complaints seen in this mailing list over the past
> week seem to me to be more than sufficient evidence that it was done
> without adequate preparation or lead time.
> 
> I'm personally still ticked off that I'm being forced to update my
> development workstation to F-10 immediately in order to continue doing
> useful work on rawhide packages.  I don't have time for that right now.
> Since F-9 is still supported, isn't it a management failing to have
> allowed this to happen without a plan to make mock on F-9 work?

Then you're wrong:

yum update rpm\* yum\*


that should be about it.

-sv





More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list