Need proventester karma for firstboot-1.113-4.fc14 (was: Re: bodhi v0.7.9 deployed)

[Rex Dieter]

James Laska wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 12:36 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Adam Williamson wrote:
>> > Again, you're extrapolating way too far from a single problem case. The
>> > problem is simply that we have the xorg-x11-drivers metapackage which
>> > requires every single X driver and is in the critpath. There's various
>> > ways we could adjust this so it's no longer the case. It's hardly
>> > something that renders an entire policy invalid.
>> 
>> Another example for how the critical path policy breaks things:
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firstboot-1.113-4.fc14
>> This update adds support for xfwm4 and openbox to the firstboot code.
>> Updates for those 2 window managers:
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfwm4-4.6.2-2.fc14
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openbox-3.4.11.2-4.fc14
...
>> I CANNOT push the firstboot update which UNBREAKS those 2 spins because
>> of the update policy. So instead of preventing breakage, the policy
>> CAUSES breakage! How can it fail more spectacularly for you to finally
>> realize it's a failure?


> In retrospect, if the three updates you list were in fact
> interdependent, should they have been submitted and tested as a group to
> avoid the current situation?

Yes.

-- Rex