Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Jun 6 20:10:44 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 06 June 2007 16:07:04 Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > People change the repo files for many reasons, like pointing to their own
> > local mirror.  If we release a package that stomps on those changes
> > that's really crappy of us.  Not something that I am willing to consider.
> >  Period.
>
> We already stomp repo files on distro upgrades.

Unless anaconda is doing something kind of evil here, we don't.  Repo files 
are %config(noreplace), and thus you wind up with .rpmnew or .rpmsave (if the 
file was removed in the new -release package) files instead of stomped repo 
files.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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