fedup f20->f21 kde broken deps

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Fri Dec 12 08:12:37 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 06:06 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.

I haven't seen a single person report a dep issue of this nature, and I
spent most of release day in #fedora, and have been following G+, 
forum, and various news site feedback since.
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