rawhide useablity

Jonathan Kamens jik at kamens.brookline.ma.us
Tue Jun 23 21:46:15 UTC 2009


I run Rawhide, and I am able to reboot, login into GNOME, and get basic work
done.

 

However, as per my recent
<https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00596.html>
message to the list, many packages in Rawhide are broken in one way or
another because of a <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506952>
gcc bug, and I would imagine that until the gcc bug is fixed, the number of
broken packages is going to increase as more packages are recompiled with
the buggy gcc.  Even after the gcc bug is fixed, it may take some time for
all the broken packages to be recompiled with the fixed gcc.

 

Therefore, my take on your question is that I wouldn't recommend updating
from Rawhide until the gcc bug is fixed and package maintainers have had a
bit of time to recompile their packages with the fixed gcc.

 

Personally, I have stopped doing regular updates from Rawhide pending the
gcc fix because I don't want the breakage on my desktop to get any worse
than it already is.

 

  Jik

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