[rawhide] ideas to improve rawhide

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:06:50 +0000
Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:55:07 -0700
> Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings. 
> > 
> > As some of you may know, I switched my laptop over to rawhide and
> > have been posting a series of blogs about the various issues I have
> > run into in the last month. 
> > 
> 
> As a non-Dev, but running rawhide.
> Hence reply here.

Always good to have more people using rawhide, IMHO. 

> yum.conf skip_broken=1 by default.
> It would remove some of the dep coughs.

It could, but sometimes that causes issues like pulling in a bunch of
32bit packages to satisfy a dep. 

> Maybe yum-local the critpath stuff?
> yum pluginise the following:
> http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/files/critical-path/old/critpath.py

I've been using yum-local here, but it's not as handy as I thought it
might be. ;( 

> modify yum-local to keep say 5 copies? 
> (in case something hits the fan)

Yeah, although you can always get them from koji.

kevin
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