Problems with QEmu in rawhide / F11 Beta

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:12:41AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:03 +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Josh and Seth on IRC made clear this required your approval and you
> > needed to be made aware to void problem when composing the F11 (beta)
> > tree,
> > 
> >   Opinion ? Really the perspective of carrying Epoch over all Fedoras
> > just because a wrong version leaked in Rawhide for 2 days looks a bit
> > excessive, we would prefer to avoid this. Oh and please can you make
> > sure we have libvirt-0.6.1 in the beta ?
> > 
> 
> Sadly, this decision isn't mine anymore.  FESCo has made it abundantly
> clear in the past that at no point should rawhide "go backwards" with
> the upgrade path.  The only time you can save your epoch is if a rawhide
> hadn't been composed between your builds.  So unless you can convince
> FESCo members to grant your request, this isn't happening.

  Okay, it was pushed so there is no way around.

> Epochs aren't a terribly evil thing, they're just a fact of life and
> easily dealt with.  They shouldn't be something to be overly scared of.

Sorry, I have 10 years of RPM madness behind me (rpmfind, RHN, etc.) and
that's just the complete opposite of my experience, and unfortunately
the one from end-users.

> Also, you have until late next Monday to get your libvirt into beta.
> The Feature Freeze was yesterday, but that's when all features should
> have been testable.  The Beta freeze is a week after Feature Freeze to
> give time to integrate and fix up remaining bugs before we freeze the
> content.

  We will find a way to build, but let me state that years of pain
with an Epoch ahead for a major package like QEmu for the sole reason of
not breaking some rawhide installation looks ridiculous to me.

  Anyway, thanks for your fast answer !

Daniel

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