Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Fri Jan 8 13:43:28 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:02:24PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100
> Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> 
> > You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package
> > is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to break a
> > system with Rawhide, if one installs the repo file, e.g. only to be
> > able to easily download the src.rpm files with yumdownloader or to
> > query it with repoquery, but not to actually install the unsigned
> > packages from it. 
> 
> How many folks do this? I suppose this is a downside... we could also
> ship it with default disabled, so you would need to install and then
> enable it. 

I guess the use of repoquery for rawhide is quite common for Fedora
developers who want to inspect the impact of updating their packages.
Also I guess at least the selective installation of some Rawhide package
might be quite common to verify bugfixes.
Imho the danger of accidently breaking the system is a lot higher if
there is a package that will auto-destruct the system with the next yum
update than it is with the current setup, where a manual change of a
config file is required.

> > It will probably also auto break systems that just
> > install everything, which is also not nice.
> 
> I don't think it's possible to 'install everything'. 
> There are a number of packages in the collection that conflict.
> Or do you have some other meaning for 'everything'?

I believe that I have read about people installing everything except for
conflicting packages to find some packaging bugs, e.g. non explicit
conflicts.

Regards
Till
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