Re: Fedora 7: The Linux Knight in Shining Armor?

Robin Laing wrote:
Tom Horsley wrote:
<SNIP>
In fact, while we're at it - never have another "release", just keep
upgrading rpms forever with individual packages being released,
but nothing called a whole distribution having a release. Individual
rpms just get marked obsolete and replaced with new ones in the
ever updated lists.

Now *that* would be a Knight in shining armor! Fedora 7 is a mere
feeble imitation in comparison :-).

[Just don't ask me to do any of the work :-].


Now, this is a great idea. No more worrying about upgrades or do I have enough time before the next release to make all the changes. What about he secondary repositories for things that will never be in Fedora proper that you have to wait to be released.

I would like to see Fedora 7 or Fedora 8 become just Fedora and then no more 6 month release dates. Just updates to what would be the next release.

QA is a nightmare with a rolling updates model for the whole distribution. There are some changes that are just too intrusive to put in as updates. Moreover even distribution with rolling updates have "releases" which are snapshots of the repository packages which can be used as a starting point for retail distribution and a starting point.

Rahul

--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Fedora 7: The Linux Knight in Shining Armor?
    ... upgrading rpms forever with individual packages being released, ... but nothing called a whole distribution having a release. ... Fedora 7 is a mere ... QA is a nightmare with a rolling updates model for the whole ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Fedora Extras is extra
    ... BTW Some Red Hat packages used to have similar things ... > external contraints allow you to bend to work inside what fedora ... > but not their own infrastructure for distribution. ... Fedora Extras will have the same policy. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: can I sell fedora?
    ... _distribution_ fee. ... on distribution too. ... This is true insofar as images containing the Fedora trademark may ... The GPL does not oblige you to offer a warranty. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net
    ... Not everyone is such a whiz that they can just go and do an in-place upgrade ... on an upgrade, Fedora can be a nightmare, and that is on a stock distro ... without manually updated or installed packages. ... Fedora is not the correct distribution for you to be running. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
    ... there were ways to provide compatibility with RPM and the quirky alternatives system even though the user had to supply his own copy of the Sun code. ... fedora has broken all relationships with this repository without supplying an alternative so you can spend all day trying to find the right instructions and still not succeed. ... have you /read/ the DLJ? ... redistributed separately or omitted from a distribution without revising ...
    (Fedora)