On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:19:08 -0700, JK (Jesse) wrote:
> On 7/27/11 2:03 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > There is a big difference between "a package going backwards in its EVR
> > and staying there" and "a package getting untagged because it breaks
koji
> > buildroot and with the plan to go forward in EVR as soon as the bug is
> > found and fixed".
>
> If it goes backwards to await a fix, that fix needs to be happening
> within the same day or so.
Panu has mentioned that he will be looking into fixing this unexpected
breakage. If that isn't acceptable to you, feel free to provide a fix
faster.
> Not prolonged so that updates fail on users'
> systems.
Do they fail in this case?
Do you prefer rpm-build in koji buildroot to fail even longer?
An issue with rpm-build on Rawhide installations is minor compared with
Fedora's offical buildsys.
> > In this case, the bad rpm-build broke koji builds, and since Rawhide
> > may eat babies, it can happen that Rawhide users need downgrade manually
> > while they have to wait for the fixed rpm-build.
The proper fix would have been to just use epoch. People can call them
evil all they want they are perfectly suitable for that kind of
problems.