Fedora Core 1 Testing Update: gcc-3.3.2-6

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 17:19:25 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:12:35PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:56:00AM -0500, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> 
> > Shouldn't the flow of an rpm be something like:
> > 
> > development -> testing -> stable ?
> 
> No.  The 'development' packages are built in a rawhide build
> environment -- you certainly don't want those ending up as stable
> updates for Fedora Core 1.
> 
> Basically a package is either built for testing (and then perhaps
> moved to stable) *or* for development.

And in the case of GCC, there are so far no reasons to have different
compiler for FC1 updates and development, which means that
the package has to be built as FC1 testing and when it becomes FC1 stable
it will be automatically inherited into FC2 development.

	Jakub





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