Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:23:48AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >The current thinking seems to be to just ignore them* but this is 
> >guaranteed to result in a lot of confusion. When end users do a 
> >distribution upgrade via yum or Anaconda, some of the packages might not 
> >have been updated to the Fedora 7 version due to incorrect packaging or 
> >other issues while the rest are packages which are deliberated not rebuild 
> >to avoid churn. Debugging a end user system with such a mix of packages is 
> >very painful.
> 
> Dist tags considered harmful... :) RHEL 5 suffers from this same 
> syndrome, it has loads of packages tagged "fc6" which I could imagine 
> causing quite a bit of confusion as well.

Well, less confusion than surprised customers that would expect RHEL
to go through the rebuilding of these packages and test the result
instead of Fear-Of-Rebuilds. I wonder if RHEL even carries all
required build dependencies to rebuild such a package. If not, it will
be fun for the packager doing the bugfix/security update.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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