How is KDE4 working in updates-testing ?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 15:10:11 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 09:36 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 06:36 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 13 August 2009 10:31:12 Nikita Bige wrote:
> >>>> I use plain imap, pop3 and filters.
> >>>> kmail crashes 10-20 time per day :(
> >>>> After last upgrade to kdepim-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64 I can't find proper
> >>>> debuginfo packages for making good bug reports...
> >>>>
> >>> My guess would be kdepim-debuginfo ;-)  Isn't that there for x86_64?
> >> I'm starting to sync latest packages in upates-testing to kde-testing, 
> >> but without debuginfo.  Ie, if you want debuginfo, you need to get them 
> >> from updates-testing.
> > 
> > Er, that confuses me. I was under the impression that it went like this:
> > 
> > kde-testing -> updates-testing -> updates
> > 
> > Is that wrong?
> 
> No.  kde* repos we have direct control over, so we can put anything we 
> want in them.  In this case, I've been syncing the latest 
> updates-testing builds into kde-testing too.  The caveat of doing that 
> is it (kde*) misses -debuginfo pkgs.

I just answered Kevin before seeing this, which changes things a little.
>From what you say there is no guaranteed precedence relation between the
two repos, i.e. one may have more recent packages than the other, or
vice versa. So what's the conscientious tester to do? Use both? (I'm not
being provocative, it's a real question).

poc




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