R: Re: F15- IMPORTANT Network Manager

antonio montagnani antonio.montagnani at alice.it
Tue May 31 21:23:06 UTC 2011


Michael Schwendt ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 
31/05/2011 23:09:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011 15:46:00 +0200 (CEST), AMI wrote:
>
>> surprising that nobody removed package from repo, causing problems to
>> everybody updating!!!! and for a newbie can be a very big problem, unless
>> Fedora is for geek
>
>
> It is not a problem for "everybody".
>
> Whether NM fails or continues to work is configuration dependent. In this
> case, the very limited testing has been entirely insufficient. Fedora will
> need to find ways how to improve in this area. It should not be possible
> for so few people to rush out a critical path update.
>
> My primary machine is not affected either, for example, but if I had been
> given a chance to try out the NM update while it was sitting in
> updates-testing for just four hours, I would not have given it a +1 in
> bodhi because the update touches more features than what I would have
> tested.
>
> No comment on removing released so-called "stable" packages from a repo,
> since I think it would be fruitless to discuss that on this list.

I agree with you that some improvement is needed in this area, as broken 
network services can remove the affected computer from the Internet, 
i.e. no available updates, no mail, that may be a problem especially for 
unexperienced users that are moving to Fedora with no close assistance 
(I am thinking to a friend of mine that is living in a very small valley 
on the Alps with no other Fedora user nearby). I understand that 
affected machines had some stuff in the network script, in my case 3G 
modem, that is not so uncommon nowadays.
My two cents...anyway tnx to all Fedora developers: Lovelock is great

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