fedora-release-rawhide, et. al.

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 26 17:18:47 UTC 2010


Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > > I muffed up fedora-release on rawhide, but here was my plan.
> > > 
> > > rawhide:
> > >   fedora-release requires fedora-release-rawhide
> > >   All repos except for rawhide disabled.  Rawhide enabled.
> > >   This state never changes, the only thing that changes is package
> > > version goes up each time we branch.  13, 14, 15, etc...
> > 
> > How about just have fedora-release contain only the rawhide
> > repo, and have 'Obsoletes: fedora-release-rawhide < %{version}'?
> 
> That might work, but would cause me some more shuffling each time I
> branch the master for a Fedora release.  What's the net positive gain
> here?

Mainly, it removes the repository definitions in rawhide that don't make
sense - the release, updates, updates-testing, etc. repos won't work anyway
unless you change $releasever in some way.

Bill


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