ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 17:19:34 -0600,
  Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The one that matters is that fedora isn't suitable for machine that need 
> to be stable and reliable.  I've always thought that a quick, easy 
> solution to most surprises would be to let yum take a date/time option 
> and ignore all updates after that time.  That way you could stay almost 
> up to date on your critical machines while watching the mail list for 
> complaints by people with the newer changes.  And, you could update a 
> test machine and after testing, reliably update other boxes to the same 
> versions that you tested even if new updates had gone in the repository.

You'd probably want the time specified as an interval to lag, rather than
a date.