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

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Sep 22 14:33:47 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:59:51 -0400,
  Al Dunsmuir <al.dunsmuir at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> If   a  second  rawhide-specific  staging  repository  (equivalent  to
> updates-testing,  so  call  it  rawhide-testing)  was  added with some
> autoqa  automation  to  prevent  gratuitous  problems  (such as broken
> dependencies  in  core  components),  I  suspect  the  situation would
> improve.

That is what branched releases have. Running one of these still gets you
pretty up to date stuff, but a bit more protection from breakage.


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