PostgreSQL 9 for F14?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:59:51PM +0000, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:13:42 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > No, I'm not advocating PgSQL 9 for F14, however, it shouldn't be so
> > far-fetched that Fedora could have any software at any time.
> 
> A Fedora update policy is being hashed out, and even before that, the 
> consensus is really against introducing major updates in stable releases. 
> It's not really "anything goes" as your statement seems to imply.
> 
> > Expecting
> > people to adopt their own personal repositories for versions of software
> > that Fedora maintainers don't want to ship "just because" should be seen
> > as a bug against Fedora itself. /end-thread-tangent
> 
> Well, we're not, thankfully, in the same situation as some other distro 
> where each third-party repository overlap quite a lot because they 
> rebuild, possibly unnecessarily, an entire stack of software. The 
> personal repositories I've seen tend to be tightly focused -- Richard 
> Jones' mingw porting work, spot's repo for bleeding edge packages that 
> rightly are not ready for Fedora proper, etc.
> 
But we're going in that direction...  For instance, spot's firefox4 repo
has to ship with its own rebuild of nss which, because of other efforts
within Fedora, a lot of packages rely on.

As the concept of using third party repositories (both as packagers and as
users) grows, this interdependence will grow.

-Toshio
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