On 2011-08-19 20:41, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Updates can be pulled out of updates-testing at any moment, which
makes a
lot of sense, but which means that users with updates-testing enabled will
end up with the EVR going backwards, something that's not even allowed in
Rawhide.
Enabling updates-testing by default means forcing EVR downgrades on users of
Branched by default, making the policy banning them in Rawhide totally
pointless.
The problem is that basically nobody is testing the actual release
package
set, considering that it's much less straightforward to opt out of updates-
testing than to opt in, and that probably only few people are doing it (and
those who do bother to explicitly opt out of updates-testing are the ones
who just need early access to the releases for whatever reason, e.g. because
they need a newer version of some package, and don't actually want to do any
testing whatsoever, just to seamlessly move on to the release when it's out
officially).
FESCo discussed both of these issues before the release of the Fedora 15
Alpha at its meetings on 16 Feb 2011 and 2 Mar 2011. The current
recommendation [1] is to run ``yum distro-sync'' after upgrading from
pre-releases to the final release.
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_from_pre-release_to_final#After_...