Michał Piotrowski wrote:
Ok, so maybe it's time to setup Fedora "backports" repo
for these that
wants new and shiny Firefox 4, PostgreSQL 9 or whatever with big
number.
I'm not a huge fan of huge updates in "stable" Firefox3->Firefox4,
Kde4.5->Kde4.6 etc. In fact I would prefer to avoid them. But
sometimes people want this latest and greatest, shiny :)
Setting up "official" backport repo will avoid repos fragmentation.
Keeping all cool updates in one place appears to be a reasonable idea.
Am I right?
How hard would it be to "cherry-pick" from this backports repository? To
install a newer Firefox from there for example, but keep the PostgreSQL from
the ordinary Fedora even if there is a newer one in the backports repository,
and with a simple "yum update" receive bugfixes to PostgreSQL from fedora-
updates and new Firefox versions from the backports repository?
If the backports repository would be an "all or nothing" thing, or if cherry-
picking would require special tweaking of Yum, then it's a bad idea.
Björn Persson