rawhide rocks! [was Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)]

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Tue Aug 31 04:32:50 UTC 2010


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On 8/30/10 4:50 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:05:34AM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> No, for rawhide to really be useful, it must be possible to put
>> unfinished system-wide changes in there: it would be pretty much
>> impossible to integrate systemd into the distribution on a "branch", and
>> to add it into rawhide only after everything works 100%.  rawhide is
>> here to allow integration of "80% working but not finished" code, and
>> polishing it.  As such, it is unavoidably dangerous, even if it may
>> often work out fine.
> 
> Wellllll, actually, see some earlier posts here on this. As it's currently
> working, things aren't pushed to Rawhide after they've been through F14
> testing.
> 
> 
> 
> 

That's only for some packages where the packager does not do a separate
F15 build and instead relies upon koji inheritance.  It isn't
necessarily systemic.

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Jesse Keating
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