yum update problems
Sandy Pond
sandy_pond at myrealbox.com
Sat Jan 22 05:14:10 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 14:23 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Rawhide eats babies. There is no truer statement.
>
Yes it does ... beware!!!
Just because someone doesn't have problems on their particular system
has no relevance to "your" system.
> problems are fixed
> primarily via bugreports not primarily with list discussion.
However, an important step if you do not wish to search bugzilla for
your particular problem.
>
> And I stand by my statement... I am greatly concerned about how
> someone who has been using rawhide for multiple number of years hasn't
> learned that these sort of packaging problems are common and that to
> get them resolved is to get bugreports filed that maintainers are
> going to see. This would indicate a failure of communication as to
> rawhide's goals and how to use rawhide in a responsible manner to
> generate useful feedback to package maintainers.
Correct, but none the less, this will continue to happen. Nothing we
can do? Maybe modify the email trailer to link a query in bugzilla.
But then again, many of the reports currently in bugzilla are
duplicates, wasting maintainer's resources. There still seems to be a
large waste of resources in the tester/mail-list/bugzilla/maintainer
infrastructure. I think that this infrastructure could be much improved
saving important and limited maintainer resources.
>
> You absolutely can not depend on a maintainer reading a post in a
> mailinglist, maintainers are made aware of problems via bugzilla so
> that issues can be tracked.
I see this as a problem with the existing infrastructure.
> He asked how to get it fixed.. i gave him
> the the answer. I am very concerned that someone running rawhide
> regularly since rhl8 hasn't repeatedly run into several of the
> inumerably infinite packaging errors resulting in exactly the same
> sorts of dependancy problems. This sort of thing is very common with
> rawhide and probably the most trivial sort of problem to confirm.
>
Agreed, but if left unresolved will continue to occur regularly. I
think this symptom is a factor in your stated frustration.
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