Possible to submit an update without obsoleting?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:37:41 +0100, RWMJ wrote:

> 
> In general I like the auto-obsoleting feature in Bodhi, but is there a
> way to disable it for a particular update?
> 
> The reason is that I've got libguestfs-1.10.1-1.fc15 waiting to go
> into stable.  I've also just built libguestfs-1.10.2-1.fc15 which is a
> further update along the upstream stable branch.
> 
> If I submit this second update, it will auto-obsolete the first
> update.  However the first update is perfectly fine in itself, and
> more importantly it fixes a dependency problem.  If it gets obsoleted
> then users will have to wait another 3-4 days in order to get the
> dependency fix and won't be able to use the package at all during this
> time.  My only choice seems to be to not submit the second update at
> all, which means no one can test it, and the eventual release of it
> will be later than it needs to be.  I'd like to "pipeline" the
> updates.
> 
> This is a general problem with auto-obsoleting if the period between
> releases < the period in updates-testing (which is the case in
> libguestfs because of our quite rapid release schedule).  In the past
> I've had chains of updates causing delays to get *any* package out of
> 3-4 weeks.

It sounds as if bodhi would need to stop obsoleting an update that
is "pending -> stable", so you could submit the next test-update a little
bit earlier.    Current behaviour (I think) is that bodhi obsoletes
updates until one is "pushed to stable".