What to do about packaging beta, or rc as alternate installable

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the packages I maintain is mercurial.  Frequently (e.g., now), there
> is a rc version available for test.  It will probably break some other package
> that depends on it.
>
> I am thinking of a model like google uses for chrome.  I could install any of:
>
> google-chrome-{stable,beta,unstable}
>
> I don't think fedora uses this model anywhere.  AFAICT, in Fedora there is
> always only 1 version available - although there could be one in updates-
> testing.  But the purpose of updates-testing is now for a long-lived parallel
> development - it is designed for short term before promotion to stable.
>
> Although the google-chrome model is perhaps not the ideal way to handle the
> idea of alternative versions - it seems good enough.
>
> Any thoughts?

You could provide it in a copr.  That is what e.g. Ryan Lerch does
with unreleased builds of his corebird package.

http://copr.fedoraproject.org/

josh