[CentOS-devel] Re: centos-d] CentOS Plus / CentOS Extras Policy
R P Herrold
herrold at owlriver.com
Tue Dec 20 13:43:40 UTC 2005
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> I dont like the idea of time only moving to stable. if no one is eager
> enough to test the pkg - maybe we dont need it in the first place :) If we
> dont get any feedback for the pkg - maybe the developer who built it /
> pkg'ed it - should request specific feedback ?
concur +1
> I worry about the fact that even 1 loose pkg out there, can break a _lot_ of
> people's setup, we have a *lot* of people know using CentOSPLus and Extras
> is enabled by default .... Personally, I would be much happier if atleast a
> couple of people had the 'it works' feedback to provide before it gets moved
> over.
concur plus LOTS
cAos 1 had this happen with an innocent novice packager in
cAos 1 that was not watched [closely enough as it turns out in
hindsight], and whose work was not tested other than against a
few packages; his work entered a yumable state, and it
poisoned the entire distribution release.
The collateral damage which resulted essentially killed cAos-1
development; I took a couple of runs of trying to get a
yum-able migration path out, but as Gnomish (/me turns to the
side and spits) elements had some false cross-
Requires/Provides into Python (/me repeats the prior action);
as yum and Python are joined at the hip, it could not be
solved.
The mess was so bad that the cAos group lost all momentum, and
eventually walked away from that failed orphan. Just earlier
this week, Greg had to maunally solve a injudicously
kard-coded Requires/Provides pair, as a blocker had again
slipped in [which also indicates a fault in the release
protocol of not running a repocheck still exists].
While it may be acceptible to a bleeding edge distribution to
experiment, it is so far from the Centos purposes, that I
wonder if automatic promotion is ever worth the risk for a
production distribution. I think not.
-- Russ Herrold
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