Fwd: Re: releasing updates-testing packages without VERIFY votes

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, September 23, 2005 2:13 PM -0500 Mike McCarty 
<mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> As far as I can see, the sole reason for existence of the Fedora
> Legacy is stability. If I were willing to forego the stability,
> I'd upgrade to FC4 right now, today. I'm not willing to do that,
> so I came to Legacy.

I have 3 FC2 servers I'd love to put FC4 on but am blocked for various 
reasons, none really "stability", at least for packages not required to 
boot the system.

One is colo'd, and I'm uncomfortable to do an upgrade of that scope without 
physical access.

One has old hardware (MegaRAID IDE) and I need to first get a working 
kernel (in progress, need to build a test boot CD) before I can update.

The last is waiting for adequate downtime to effect the upgrade. (I'll be 
copying the drive, then upgrading with the copy.)

For all of these servers I update piecemeal, often from Rawhide SRPM's to 
get something close to the upstream stable release. For some packages with 
good SRPM's upstream, I'll go straight to those. (I just did that for 
SpamAssassin.)