On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 18:08 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > I would like to see an option whereby I can defer updates of selected > software that I choose by xx days. My idea is that for certain > updates, I don't want to be first to receive them, ergo, I don't want > to be on the bleeding edge.
To add to what Seth has said, in the hope that others can find it, I think most people who are asking for a feature like this need to really think about what it is they really want. For instance Fedora already has an updates-testing repo. that almost all updates go into before they go into updates, this means that there is _already_ a delay from the "bleeding edge" ... so you are asking for a _bigger delay_, for certain packages. Presumably the ones that break most often for you, or cause you the most pain? But then why wouldn't all of Fedora's users want the same benefits? So then the obvious solution is to the delay those packages in updates-testing for longer, and yet (at least so far) from a package maintainer point of view I don't see many comments in bodhi from people who have tested in updates-testing. > I thought that since we have a yum config file that has the exclude > statement, that we could use the same parameter, only with an option. This actually isn't that hard to do via. a yum plugin, look at yum-security/yum-version-lock etc. and add a very simple "DB" (probably via. zero length file timestamps in a /var/cache/yum/<foo>/first_seen/ dir). But again, if it "works well" people will use it and if lots of people use it, I firmly believe you'll just eventually be back to where you are now but with a bigger delay[1]. So after all that negativity what do I suggest you can do that might work long term? 1. Install things you don't care too much about, from updates-testing, and report results into bodhi ... and encourage others to do the same. 2. Get a test machine/Xen-instance to test the things that cause you pain ... and only install them after they work there. 3. Install yum-security and set it up to just install security updates and/or specific BZ problems, most of the time. 4. Try something that isn't quite so "new" as the latest current Fedora, like the previous Fedora (Fedora 7 is getting much fewer updates now that Fedora 8 is out) or CentOS etc. [1] Actually probably worse off than just enabling updates-testing, with an exclude of some packages, because it'll be much more ad hoc. -- James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Red Hat
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