Yesterday two new subdirectories, ./13 and ./rawhide, appeared in /pub/fedora/linux/development directory on download.fedora.redhat.com. At first glance each of these seem to have pretty much the same contents as the original development directory. Such redundancy would make little sense unless it indicates the beginning of two new forks. Can someone share the plan details with us?
--Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 10:04 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
Yesterday two new subdirectories, ./13 and ./rawhide, appeared in /pub/fedora/linux/development directory on download.fedora.redhat.com. At first glance each of these seem to have pretty much the same contents as the original development directory. Such redundancy would make little sense unless it indicates the beginning of two new forks. Can someone share the plan details with us?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Implementation
See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan
We've been talking about this for over 6 months.
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 08:25 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 10:04 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
Yesterday two new subdirectories, ./13 and ./rawhide, appeared in /pub/fedora/linux/development directory on download.fedora.redhat.com. At first glance each of these seem to have pretty much the same contents as the original development directory. Such redundancy would make little sense unless it indicates the beginning of two new forks. Can someone share the plan details with us?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Implementation
See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan
We've been talking about this for over 6 months.
Jesse,
Thanks. Now that I know what to search for, I found John Poelstra's three e-mails to this list on Nov 19, Feb 10, and Feb 12. They mention that new wiki pages are needed to explain the details. As far as I can tell, those pages still being written.
So let me speculate:
./development/13 is the F13 alpha, beta, and rc tree. It will ultimately be moved to ./releases/13.
./development/rawhide will become the new ./development tree for packages destined for F14 and beyond.
./development/i386 ./development/ppc ./development/ppc64 ./development/source ./development/x86_64 are deprecated and will (soon?) be deleted.
At the appropriate time, ./development/rawhide will be copied to ./development/14 and the cycle will repeat.
--Doc
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Jesse Keating -
Robert G. (Doc) Savage