Re: No updates?

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 00:46 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  […]
>  there's a problem, I'm not sure anyone sent a memo, though. 
Not a problem per se, it is just that this is the first time I have had
more than 2 days without updates.

>  basically, new packages go out to the repos as part of the regular
>  'composes'. If the compose fails, the repos don't get new packages.
>  Rawhide composes have been failing for the last several days because
>  releng have been trying to enable compose of the Atomic trees and
>  images and it hasn't been working.
>  
>  I'm pretty sure I saw on IRC today that they've disabled the Atomic
>  bits again to try and get a compose through, so hopefully we'll get
>  one
>  soon. 
Splendid.

Whilst on the topic of updates has the DRPM system been terminated.
Since the F24 → F25 shift and the rearrangement of the repository
filestore to the Workstation/Server/Everything/… structure, there
appears to be no DRPMs. Given this can reduce 250MB downloads to 30MB
(OK that is on a good day :-) this can be very important when I am out
and about and using mobile Internet.

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