Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Dec 16 15:42:24 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:26 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:

> > Any opinions on this?
> 
> While I see some value in this, poisoning the buildroot is a grave danger 
> here. I'd be hesitant to endorse it.
> 
> Is this proposal based on any real examples of updates-testing pkgs breaking 
> builds?  Perhaps we could study these cases closer first.

I believe the Rawhide system of using a tag to test a set of dependent
builds can also be used for stable release updates, no? If not, that
seems a better solution than putting things straight into buildroot.
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