Pushing out-of-sync updates to EPEL stable: Problematic?

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Fri Jul 11 17:16:24 UTC 2014


On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:01:20 -0500
John Morris <john at zultron.com> wrote:

> There was a recent flurry of updates to the new freecad package, with 
> one Bodhi update including updates to OCE and smesh [1].
> 
> A following update to freecad was pushed to stable before the
> previous one, which contained the OCE update, was pushed, as a user
> reported [2].
> 
> Clearly, the OCE and smesh updates need to be pushed to stable.  Will
> it cause problems that the obsolete freecad package is part of the
> same update?  Of course I hope that the current freecad, with a newer
> package revision, would 'win' and the obsolete freecad would be
> dropped from the update, but I don't want any surprises.

It might not. 

You could edit the update and removing that package from it... 

or if you are already pushing it to stable, ping me (or other folks on
#fedora-releng) to check and make sure the right one is tagged in. 

kevin
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