On 12/03/2009 08:20 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 00:32 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>> We wouldn't be talking about removing the original GA set - just adding
>> updated pkgs into the path. So you'd still have the number of pkgs -just
>> all in one repo, that you have to download all of the metadata for
>> all of
>> the more often, despite that 15K of them don't CHANGE.
>
> I don't think that was actually made clear in the initial proposal. I'd
> been assuming that the proposal was _exactly_ to remove the GA set.
> Usually, when a newer package shows up in any given repository, we don't
> keep the previous version of the package, do we? So I assumed the
> proposal was expecting that behaviour for the combined repository.
> From a QA standpoint I'd think you'd want at least one known-installable
set of pkgs. Since everything after the original GA set is a giant
questionmark.
Not to mention that removing all the old pkgs would more or less make
deltarpms very difficult.
Well, if we're talking about removing them from Fedora/ but leaving
them in Everything/ (am I understanding the current form of the proposal
correctly?), then it's not really significantly more difficult,
but it is one more process that needs modification in order to enact
such a plan.
--
Peter
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Einstein