Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Oliver Falk]

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Jesse Keating schrieb:
> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 12:41:19 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Note that we aren't talking about custom repositories or anything like
>> that. User switches on fedora-devel repo and runs yum update. Just
>> before a new release a new fedora-release gets pushed that turns off the
>> devel repo and points to the stable branch.
>>
>> The rule about not changing user configuration is all about preventing
>> surprises to end users. I would argue that not doing what I just
>> described is much more surprising to many testers.
> 
> 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.

Copy that.

For myself and my few servers I can say: I have removed anything in
/etc/yum.repos.d/ and have one include line in /etc/yum.conf, that
actually is a script on a remote server. Perl it is,  but nevermind, it
does what it should - depending on the release number and architecture,
it returns a list of repos... If some package would change this
configuration in some way, I wouldn't be happy! :-) At company we have a
very simliar setup; BUT: More than 120 (Linux) servers. If I would have
to manually fix this........ Don't want to even think about...

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