fedup f20->f21 kde broken deps

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Dec 12 05:06:25 UTC 2014


On 12/08/2014 08:26 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 07:36 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>>> Just for the purpose of testing upgrade.img, you can simply enable
>>> updates-testing if it turns out you have a situation like this and you
>>> need a package from u-t to make the upgrade package set viable.
>> This is not true. They are completely different scenarios.
>>
>> The purpose of using "release"+"updates"+"updates-testing" is entirely
>> different from using "release"+"updates", esp. in stages like these.
>>
>> The purpose of using "release"+"updates" is to test upgrading to
>> Fedora(N+1) (and testing fedup/yum/dnf-support ) and not to test
>> update-candidate packages from "update-testing".
>
> I don't really see the distinction as important,
I consider this to be critically important ...

> because it is a
> perennially moving target in any case. After Tuesday, f21 will get a new
> stable updates push every day.
... it is likely the #1 cause of users facing broken updates - Esp. 
during time-frames shortly after releases like these.

I haven't checked details this time, but there a quite a few reports 
indicating this has happened again with this release.

Ralf



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