Please remember to update rawhide

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Sep 2 16:08:07 UTC 2010


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On 9/2/10 7:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> writes:
>> When you do an update in F-14 and rely on inheritance to get the package
>> into rawhide, there is a problem.  That package will not go to rawhide until
>> it hits stable in F-14.
> 
> ... um ... and why exactly is that the policy?
> 
>> That means, for the typical F-14 workflow of:
> 
>> * build for f14.
>> * Push to testing in f14
>> * Wait one to two weeks for the package to receive some testing
>> * Push to stable
> 
>> rawhide is left with an older inherited build until it is pushed to stable.
> 
> Which is why this shouldn't be the policy.  Rawhide should inherit the
> latest completed build.  It's rawhide, after all.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane

Please see the ticket for why that is not an easy thing to do.

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Jesse Keating
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