[CentOS-devel] Packaging Office hours at 16:00 UTC today

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

On 01/23/2014 01:07 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote:
>>>
>> Bare in mind we are talking here only about newly emerged issues,
>> because if SiG has had a problem with some package in the past, chances
>> are that modified version is already in higher SiG's repository.
>
> I don't have a working SME or ClearOS box right now.  Can someone
> comment on whether they let yum hit the base or epel repos directly
> now?   Or do they have local or renamed copies of the things they
> manage?
>
>> Lets go back a little. RHEL packages mostly and mainly are built so
>> there are NO drastic changes. Every update must provide exactly the same
>> behavior.
>
> Agreed, but everyone will still advise testing all of your packages
> together before pushing to anything important.    With management
> /control packages, not only does the behavior have to stay the same
> but also the formats of the configuration files.
>
>> Where you are thinking of huge number of largely different packages, I
>> am thinking of majority of updates being minor bug fixes and large
>> number of packages only with new distro version, 6.4->6.5->6.6, etc.
>
> I'm not thinking of largely different files, I'm thinking of files
> that depend very closely on each other and need to be constrained to
> update together - perhaps from repos managed separately.
>

So in your opinion, no Variants should be created, or everyone should 
duplicate the packages they use like it is done now. Got it.

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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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