Upgrades - updates - discuss?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Robin Laing wrote:

> But why cannot there be a group of updates based on the new python or 
> the new X?  How do others manage these changes?  Not all packages depend 
> on python or X so not all packages need to be updated.  There must be 
> some support for python2.4 in 2.5 or that would require a major change 
> and I would expect the numbering to change to 3.0.

In some instances, the entire distribution is rebuild against a new 
version of glibc which would result in a new version of some package 
pulling in a new glibc forcing you to move to newer versions of every 
package. While a staging area like a testing repository can be used to 
prevent major problems it is still very much disruptive.

> Don't get me wrong, I do understand this reasoning.  I have tried the 
> upgrade via yum path with headaches and will stick with the clean 
> install from that point on.

I would appreciate if you continue to yum upgrade and report problems 
especially during test releases so that we can avoid those issues in the 
general release. Most of these issues are packaging problems which can 
be fixed.

Rahul