terminology and the hierarchy of releases
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 9 19:21:57 UTC 2004
Robert P. J. Day said:
[snip]
> or, putting it another way, what value would it have to remove references
> to updates and/or proposed updates repos from yum.conf if you've already
> applied all of those updates? and would this represent a system that
> you should even *try* to move up to development via upgrades?
I think it is good advice. Say have both repos enabled. An update comes
out for a package in the "updates" before it comes out in "development"
and this package depends on a package that is a different version between
the two (I'm thinking like Python here). You either get an update that
tries to downgrade your development packages or you get a package that
will be broken. Granted, up2date or yum will handle the situation, but
why bother with it?
A better way to look at it:
What value would there be to using the FC1 base and updates repos on a
rawhide install? I don't really think there is any because you want the
development packages to be installed, not the FC1 packages.
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William Hooper
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