RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Mar 6 22:15:06 UTC 2013


Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said: 
> On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 16:58 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > We don't ship in a way that easily allows this though, now. Admittedly,
> > this is due to the sheer *amount* of stuff involved in just maintaining
> > single versions of things, and how much that would jump if we started
> > having multiple versions available all the time. 
> 
> To be clear, I am not suggesting multiple versions.  The suggestion is
> that the old version of mesa overrides the new version and the tests
> (and users) get it.
> 
> Pretend like we bumped the Epoch.

That requires more tooling changes, of course. (Or really dirty tricks
in the repodata).

Bill


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