Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Sun Apr 8 19:23:00 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 19:49 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Till Maas schrieb:
> > On So April 8 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > 
> >> My take: I'm not sure if that's really worth the trouble and we are
> >> quite late in the game for Fedora 7. So maybe we should just ignore this
> >> for Fedora 7 and find a better solution for F8 and later.
> > We can do it for FC8 without at as much traffic as now, given yum-presto is 
> > then widely used.
> 
> My biggest concern ATM (e.g. for doing it for F7) is not the traffic,
> it's the timing, as doing the rebuild of all those packages before
> F7-test4 happens will be hard.

It should be noted that there is nothing preventing packagers from doing
rebuilds for this right now.  If the maintainers of packages still
tagged with .fc6 want to rebuild to pick up the .fc7 disttag, they
certainly can.

josh




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