F11 Proposal: Stabilization

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Nov 18 22:08:17 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:04 -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> > Couldn't both the above be solved by 'subscribing' to those sets of
> > packages via say PackageKit?  That way when PackageKit goes to look for
> > updates, it only asks for updates for those particular packages.  When
> > you update, if anything else is needed to satisfy newer builds of those
> > packages they can be pulled in.
> >
> > Of course, what we'd likely see is a combo of "Give me all security
> > updates" and also "Give me updates only for these sets of packages".
> > The interesting question is how to design UI around the subscriptions.
> >
> >   
> 
> I think I like this.
> 
> In the case of "I just want a newer OpenOffice" and don't touch 
> everything else, that's already covered by a yum install today -- but we 
> do need something for the update case(s).

The upside here is that it's purely client side code.  We don't have to
change anything about how we prepare and publish updates.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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