What is rawhide for?
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl
Tue Jun 17 10:32:47 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:16:46AM -0400, John Poelstra wrote:
> Rawhide serves several purposes in Fedora and yet I don't think we clearly
> delineate what they are. It is often said in Fedoraland that the best way
> to test the Feodora is to "run rawhide." There is a difference between
> installing and running rawhide to experience the absolute latest and
> greatest Fedora has to offer and intentionally testing it. I just think we
> need to be clearer about our approach and use of rawhide for testing
> (specific QA) because sometimes it doesn't make sense.
[...]
> 4) You never know when it will install or not. It isn't smoke tested--we
> leave that for *everyone* to do themselves based on their own install
> attempt. Even if Fedora hosted an automated smoke test to determine if it
> installs you still have the problem of mirrors being out of sync and not
> knowing if what you have is the exact same group of packages that passed
> the smoke test.
Still, doing automated installs is something that's possible to do and
a good testing tool.
Regards,
R.
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