Rawhide plans

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Wed Aug 19 16:19:37 UTC 2015


On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:19:03AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> I think most everyone was in agreement that once you had a rawhide
> install and were just applying updates, you were in pretty good shape.
> Much better than you would have been a few years ago. There are bugs,
> but they are often easy to workaround with downgrades until they are
> fixed, etc. Also dnf tries very hard to not install anything thats part
> of a set of broken deps, so while it might take longer to get some
> packages you won't break your local install. 

I'm *cautiously* in agreement. This is mostly true in practice, but we
don't have any policies (let alone enforcement) in place to avoid
repeating <https://lwn.net/Articles/506831/>?



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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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