[fedora-virt] Improving release / update process for virt packages

[Bill Davidsen]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:41 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>
>   
>> So in summary
>>
>>  - All new upstream releases built in rawhide
>>  - New upstream releases also built in stable preview branch if possible
>>  - Only bugfixes built in stable updates/updates-testing branch
>>  - In exceptional circumstances, rebase for preview branch can be
>>    built to updates/updates-testing after alot of positive testing
>>     
>
> Dan did a great job of laying out the process we intend using for
> updates to virt packages going forward. Re-read it if you missed it the
> first time:
>
>   http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00008.html
>
> One thing we hadn't discussed until earlier this week is what to do
> about current F9 and F10 updates.
>
> We had pushed libvirt 0.6.0 (late January) and 0.6.1 (early March) to F9
> and F10 updates-testing. Neither of these were ever pushed to stable
> updates.
>
> Packages aren't intended to live in updates-testing forever - it is
> intended that a package gets pushed to stable after some testing, or
> gets unpushed if its too unstable. If a package does linger in
> updates-testing for too long, it prevents simple bugfix updates for the
> previous version from being pushed in the mean time.
>
> Since we weren't confident that pushing 0.6.1 to F9 and F10 stable
> updates, we were left with no choice but to unpush it.
>
> So in summary
>
>   - libvirt 0.6.1 has been unpushed from F9 and F10 updates-testing
>
>   - The latest version available in F9 and F10 updates is 0.5.1
>   

So the updates-testing stuff is just teasers and is never going to be 
generally available without a full update? And if some of our machines 
are on one version and some are on another we live with that, roll our 
own from FC11 source, or force downgrade?

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