Fedora 12 RC-3

[Gene Czarcinski]

On Monday 09 November 2009 11:29:17 Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 11:17 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > On Monday 09 November 2009 10:40:13 Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > > On Sunday 08 November 2009 16:04:40 Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 08 November 2009 15:38:56 Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 15:22 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > > > > > On two system ... regular bare metal and a laptop.  Do you wnat
> > > > > > them here or should I open a BZ report?
> > > > >
> > > > > BZ is fine, please post the number here though.
> > > >
> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533740
> > > >
> > > > Includes yum.log files and a copy of the screenshot
> > >
> > > Tested RC4 and it now works ... BZ report closed.
> >
> > As I was thinking about it, I notice that the list of optional additional
> > repositories now includes not just updates but updates-testing.  This
> > differs from F11 where only the everything base and updates was listed.
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > Was this intentional?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> > Personally, I think this may be a good idea.  However, will it cause
> > problems for some users who are not prepared to deal with software not
> > completely tested?
> 
> It's unintended and different from F11 behaviour, but Jesse couldn't fix
> it safely (fixing it so this repo set gets displayed is a small and safe
> change, but fixing it not to show updates-testing is bigger, AIUI). We
> decided it was acceptable.
> 

As I said, I personally think having the option of using updates-testing may 
be a good idea.  But, I personally would not use it for the install unless 
there was some fix in updates-testing which impacted the install for my 
particular set of hardware (e.g., kernel, firstboot, etc.).

Perhaps there should be some warning to users in the updated Release Notes.

Regardless, having updates-testing is much better than no optional additional 
repositories.

--
Gene