On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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On 09/29/2010 11:45 AM, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 09:36 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On 09/29/2010 09:02 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
>>> So the alternative here is:
>>> - Add a warning/note to F14 gnome-shell that it's old and to:
>>> - Make it easier and better to run F15/rawhide. Which involves
>>> fixing the problems there, and scripting the rpm/yum foo better to
>>> make the switch, and being a lot more aggressive about preventing
>>> regressions.
>>
>> What about hosting a repos.fp.o for gnome-shell in F14?
>
> The problem here is that that repository would have to have all the
> updates that Colin is saying that we don't want to do now:
>
> - Rebuilds of all the gnome libraries
> - New pygobject
> - Parallel-installed clutter-14
> - Etc.
>
> So it's a repo that would modify systems fairly drastically and would
> take a lot of work to maintain. Not infeasible but we do need to
> concentrate a lot on F15 in this cycle.
>
> - Owen
>
>
I envisioned just copies of the f15 change sets being built against f14
and published into an f14 repo. This could be done by somebody not
necessarily being distracted with upstream and f15 tasks.
Problem with that is that it changes a lot of core libraries and would
likely break the standard desktops for those users that use the 3rd
party repos.
Peter