Pushing updates for Fedora 7

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Sun Jun 3 13:46:27 UTC 2007


On Sunday 03 June 2007 07:12:48 Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 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.

This is not always practical.  Should a firefox remote exploit fix be held up 
because a fringe package that builds against FF and is used by say 5 people 
hasn't been rebuilt yet?  Should every use suffer?  I seriously hope not.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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