Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 10:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:13 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
> > > The reason it isn't made default is that there is no converse of it, 
> > > IE --wait.  So by making it not default it gives users the opportunity to 
> > > either use it if they like, or add a --nowait flag to disable it.  One can't 
> > > have it disabled by default and force a way to have it actually wait.
> > 
> > Well, that's a regression compared to plague. Please fix it (or do I have
> > to file a bug against koji to have it done?). I agree with Ralf that koji
> > should mimic plague behaviour in that respect.
> 
> I'm sure there are a lot of people who would respond with saying that koji should 
> mimic brew behaviour instead, i.e. stay as it is now.
brew == redhat internal stuff.
plague == externally used stuff.

Did you ever consider that there might be users who work over low
bandwidth lines and/or don't want to wait for hours until the buildsys
returns?

IMO, "launching build jobs" is an example of a classical batch task.
"launch", forget about it until some feedback is returned (email).

>  To make all the
> picky developers happy, we probably need a full set of --wait/--nowait
> options plus a config file to set the default.
Is there any config file? ... no docs.

>  The build system is open
> source now, so everybody can write patches...
May-be if she speaks python ... I don't.

Ralf