On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 14:50 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote: > If I haven't missed something, it looks like there was only a 2-day > window (during a weekend) between the update to fedora-release-13-1 > (which enabled updates and disabled updates-testing) > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/090747.html > > and the next push to updates-testing > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/090835.html > > and I can't find any public mention of this (though I know it was > mentioned somewhere). This is crucial information for anyone installing > from an image from before around May 8 (such as the Beta). If they miss > the window, and then don't update fedora-release first, they end up with > probably unwanted updates-testing packages. > > Just wondering, would it be possible and reasonable to have a flag > associated with package updates that enable/disable repos, so that when > an update includes them, do only those, and then notify that enabled > repos have changed, so that another update should be done (or do it > automatically)? > > If not, I think these windows should be publicized better, so people > installing from earlier images don't end up with unwanted packages on > their system. For example, since the Alpha and Beta are announced on > the announce list, that might be a good place to announce this window as > well.
The window doesn't matter that much anyway, as by no means all packages pushed to updates-testing during the pre-final cycle have been (or will be) approved as updates. So it's perfectly possible people who installed pre-releases will have what you term 'unwanted' packages anyway. This seems to be to be reasonable for those who run pre-releases, but I suppose we could write it up somewhere for clarity... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
