On Wed, 2018-04-04 at 11:07 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > On 04/03/2018 07:02 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-04-03 at 15:25 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > > > One question comes to mind though - won't this be a problem in the > > > future too? How can we guarantee that users can keep upgrading to 14, > > > 15, 16, etc. since Fedora doesn't keep in-between updates in the repos? > > When I maintained ownCloud, I just shipped upstream major version bumps > > as downstream stable updates. I wrote a wiki page explaining that the > > upstream ownCloud upgrade policy was the reason for doing this. It's > > still there: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OwnCloud#ownCloud_package_update_policy > > Hey Adam! > > I think that's a reasonable stance to take on the update policy, but it > doesn't quite address the specific problem I was getting at. I wasn't so > much worried about pushing major updates to our users as I was worried > about a user *missing* a major update while it was still in the repos. I > probably didn't express this clearly enough, but to expand my example:
I used to keep a side repo with builds of each major version around to cover this scenario. Not sure if James does the same. I stopped using *cloud when I stopped maintaining it. Not worth the hassle. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
