rawhide and Fedora QA [was Re: why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM]

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 12:19:14AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> John Poelstra (poelstra at redhat.com) said: 
> > I'm guessing changing the name of the "development" repo to "rawhide" 
> > could cause more confusion at the mirrors and in /etc/yum.repos.d/.  How 
> > big of problem is this and are there any big reasons not to change 
> > "development" to "rawhide"?  Worth targeting for F8?
> 
> It's moving 50+GB of content and renaming rsync modules on the mirrors
> the release *after* we moved everything and said we were done changing.
> 
> Yes, it's a problem changing it. :/

I agree this would be quite invasive, but the documenation can be
rawhide'd (rawhidden? ;)

For example the yum config files could look like

[rawhide]
name=Fedora - Development (rawhide)
mirrorlist=...

And any mention to the development repos could be replaced by
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RawHide which would be the renamed and
redirected /Development pages.

This would make a better association of the /development/... paths and
the name rawhide.

All assuming we want to get the name "rawhide" back to its former
glory, because - as said - FC1 was trying to phase it out for whatever
reason (maybe someone back then thought that RHEL's internal
development tree would keep that name?).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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