On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 12:38:13PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:26:43 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
That said, maybe the Fedora repos can keep more than one (say 2-3) versions of the kernel in case some users need to downgrade and don't have it in their cache?
IMO, the community would be served better if they tried packages from updates-testing early and more often.
Individual users may keep copies of installed packages, e.g. via yum-plugin-local or by saving Yum cache contents, but evaluating updates-testing should be the primary way to check new updates for bugs.
Well the comment about trying packages from updates-testing is always true. I often try to do that, but sometimes it is not possible because you might want to have an extremely reliable system for a couple of months or so. You hold off updates that require reboots or logouts and soon your local cache is outdated, and a future downgrade fails.