Making updates-testing more useful

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Thomas Moschny wrote:

> 2008/12/12 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>
>>> Another good question (related to the "will this confuse new users" part):
>>> Will you enable the updates-testing repos from 3rd party repos in the same
>>> step automatically? Otherwise people that use those repos will now and then
>>> run into dependency troubles -- for example when a new xine-lib enters
>>> updates-testing from Fedora and xine-lib-extras-nonfree enters
>>> updates-testing from RPM Fusion at the same time.
>>>
>>> But well, likely it doesn't matter to much anyway, as yum is still pretty
>>> broken in such situations anyway, as mirror lags will confuse it:
>>>
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-August/msg00041.html
>>
>> Yes, that's right yum is broken b/c the mirrors are out of sync.
>
> No matter how hard you try, there will always be a small period in
> time where mirrors are out of sync. And this especially holds for the
> synchronization between the main Fedora repo and third party repos.
>
> So there should be a mechanism developed to make yum aware of the fact
> that one repo (or mirror) it uses is behind others - because that can
> lead to (virtual) dependency problems which probably should be
> reported to the end user in a different way than intra-repo dependency
> problems.

what do you mean 'virtual' dependency problems? They are not virtual they 
are actual dependency issues.

-sv