RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

[Bill Nottingham]

seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:28:58 -0500
> Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 13:17 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > > If the issue was only 'newer is better' then rpm can easily get
> > > around it. Hell, so can yum, now.
> > 
> > But koji, createrepo and such can't, right?
> 
> 
> createrepo is version agnostic. It cares not at all.
> 
> koji can build whatever, too.. I'm not sure how those are related here.

Well, on the koji side there are build concerns, but that's somewhat
separate from giving users something they can stay on stably.

We don't ship in a way that easily allows this though, now. Admittedly,
this is due to the sheer *amount* of stuff involved in just maintaining
single versions of things, and how much that would jump if we started
having multiple versions available all the time. That being said,
as long as we're willing to take the hit in disk space & repodata size,
and we're willing to nuke deltas from orbit (they won't scale to this,
sorry), we could certainly support having multiple versions of everything
available for easier rollback.

Bill