Ned Slider wrote on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:34:03 +0100:
You didn't wait for the official release announcement ;)
Why should he? Is he only allowed to run yum update after each official announcement? I still see no release announcement yet, but packages are already available. I think there is a flaw in the release cycle logic. There's always a chance that despite of all the dependency checks a "half -update" creates a problem while the "full update" would not.
Once the release is imminent (say two days before it, or maybe a week before it and before *any* new package is distributed) there should be an announcement that a release of the new minor version is due, so that anyone can prepare and not accidentally download and install only half of the packages because the mirror isn't fully equipped yet (and update any of the "old" packages where he's not up-to-date yet before he updates to the new minor version). And after the release when it is safe to assume most mirrors have all the packages do the real announce.
Yes, you can follow this list and check yum update each day and assume that if after a long dry period new packages arrive that they must be part of 5.3 and wait a bit longer until all are available. But that's not really a clean solution. A preparation announcement would be.
Kai