Broken upgrade paths in F7

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Fri May 18 17:34:58 UTC 2007


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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?

As an engineer who does this all the time on crappy wifi connections 
from neighbors' for a large build that does take 4 hours for a build to 
complete from unpack to debuginfo complete on all arches (though I'm 
including s390, ia64, etc), I'd rather have it wait.  It's not that much 
traffic and it's a heck of a lot better than having to wait for all my 
massive amounts of email to download before I know whether or not my 
build failed because of a patch not applying or something silly.  For 
me, and for some others that aren't necessarily at Red Hat, this means I 
don't need to VPN in, which is important over crappy connections.




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