Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:51:03AM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> 2010/9/21 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> > As the concept of using third party repositories (both as packagers and as
> > users) grows, this interdependence will grow.
> 
> Ok, so maybe it's time to setup Fedora "backports" repo for these that
> wants new and shiny Firefox 4, PostgreSQL 9 or whatever with big
> number.

We already do this for virtualization features:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository

It's a fair amount of work for Justin.

Rich.

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