Pushing updates for Fedora 7

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sun Jun 3 11:12:48 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 06:10 -0400, Luke Macken wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 05:06:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> writes:
> > > Once we agree on a policy, I can implement it.  I've heard some people
> > > suggest letting updates sit in testing for 7 days, and if there are no
> > > complaints, then they can be pushed to the stable repo.  This sounds
> > > fine to me, what does everyone else think?
> > 
> > <cough>zero-day security patches</cough>
> 
> Security updates go straight to Stable already.
They shouldn't. They should undergo an automated procedure to assure
they fit cleanly into the existing installations and don't break package
deps.

Ralf





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