On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:22, Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Oscar A. Valdez wrote:
>In the future, will Rawhide be "compatible" with current Fedora
>releases?
Simple answer: No.
Longer answer: Rawhide is a public snapshot of the constantly
moving and changing internal software builds at Red Hat of what
will eventually become the next OS release. It has always been
this, and current plans are to continue this. At some point in
time changes will start getting into the tree which are no doubt
incompatible with Fedora Core 1. That will be very intentional.
Not intentional in the sense of "break compatibility" but
intentional as in "proceed with development". Some of these
incompatibilities of course will be temporary and randomly coming
and going, whereas others will be permanent due to new technology
inclusion, packaging incompatibilities and many other factors.
Of course, wherever possible, we try to avoid unnecessary
incompatibilites, but that isn't always possible either.
During Fedora Test, rawhide has been used in a slightly new fashion to
provide updates for testing via a channel in up2date. This has probably
created an anticipation that updates will continue to be supplied in
this way. What do we switch to for update channels once Fedora Core 1
is released?
I will probably answer the question myself by noting that the most
recent updates have changed the up2date channel designation to two
channels called "fedora-core-1" and "updates-released." Will these
channels now have a distinct set of updates different from rawhide?
Thanks.
Gerry