On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:28:14 +0100
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info> wrote:
The proper answer IMHO is to do what we planed from the start, but
never realized: create per dist dirs like epel/5.1. When 5.2 ships to
a "cp -al 5.1 5.2", update the builders and ship all newly build
packages in the 5.2 dir. Once CentOS 5.2 is out delete the 5.1 dir.
The only problem: we'd need to push security updates to both the 5.1
and 5.2 dir during the delta where CentOS catches up.
BTW, we will likely cause problems for RHEL/RHN customers in any case
in rare situations when RH ships updates because we don't get new RHEL
update releases in advance -- thus we might now and then need a day or
two to catch up in case something from EPEL needs to be build against
a new updated package (firefox, pidgin, ...) from RHEL.
This is where RHEL z-stream updates will come into play.
Please ping me for the next EPEL meeting as I'd like to discuss this
during the meeting.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?