Should a working fedup in Fedora N's stable repository be a release criterion for N+1?

[David Howells]

Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> >  - Install fedup 0.7.0
> >  - Try it and watch it fail or hang
> >  - Update to fedup 0.8.0 from updates-testing
> >  - Run fedup
> > 
> > ends up downloading all rpms *twice* a sucking up a correspondingly
> > immense amount of disk space.
> 
> Um, I'm fairly sure it doesn't. It only re-downloads stuff that's
> different from the previous run.

There was a bug whereby fedup-0.7.3 would delete all the downloaded RPMs after
failing to install them.  See:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020898

This is reportedly fixed in fedup-0.8.0.

David