On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:24 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
Gary Benson wrote:
But all this is somewhat tangential to the original point, which was that "[if] the JPackage repos are added to a FC4 yum configuration, yum will try to overwrite [Fedora] packages with [JPackage] packages..." Allowing the Fedora stack to be extended with JPackage packages was and is a key requirement. There's only one way I can see that would prevent the former while still allowing the latter, and that's for Fedora's packages to have the same EVR as the JPackage packages. Since that is something we cannot commit to, the problem will remain regardless of where the native code is packaged.
I'm starting to think we shouldn't support Fedora Core/JPackage pull arrangements, only Rawhide/JPackage arrangements.
Fedora Core and JPackage are on different release cycles; FC tends to have "releases" whereas JPackages are continually updated individually. I think each project's release strategy makes sense for it but the two strategies are incompatible.
Without FC/JPackage setups where will people get packages that are in JPackage but not in FC? I'm wondering if a JPackage -> Fedora Extras bridge is in order. Right before a Fedora release we'd do a drop from JPackage to Extras of all packages not in Core. That way FE would be a snapshot of JPackage at FC release time. That would insulate FC users from JPackage churn, while Rawhide users could continue using JPackage directly.
Tom