Push KDE4 into F8-update-testing.

[Gilboa Davara]

Hello all,

Small suggesting:
Will it be possible to push KDE4 into F8's update-testing? (Without
pushing the update into -updates)
Seems to me that it should increase the number of KDE4 testers by adding
those who cannot afford to use a rawhide machine on a daily basis, but
are willing to help test KDE4 on their F8 installs.

- Gilboa

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 15:36 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Small suggesting:
> Will it be possible to push KDE4 into F8's update-testing? (Without
> pushing the update into -updates)
> Seems to me that it should increase the number of KDE4 testers by adding
> those who cannot afford to use a rawhide machine on a daily basis, but
> are willing to help test KDE4 on their F8 installs.
> Gilboa

Title should have been:
"Suggestion: Push KDE4 into F8-update-testing?"

My bad.

- Gilboa

[ne...]

On 04/12/2007, Gilboa Davara  wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Small suggesting:
> Will it be possible to push KDE4 into F8's update-testing? (Without
> pushing the update into -updates)

Considering the way these are packaged, you cannot do a side by side
install with 3.5.x. Therefore, I do not think this is feasible. If
KDE4 were packaged the way SUSE packages their's then more people
would be on board.

My 2pence worth

ne...

[Michel Salim]

On 04/12/2007, ne...  wrote:
> On 04/12/2007, Gilboa Davara  wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Small suggesting:
> > Will it be possible to push KDE4 into F8's update-testing? (Without
> > pushing the update into -updates)
>
> Considering the way these are packaged, you cannot do a side by side
> install with 3.5.x. Therefore, I do not think this is feasible. If
> KDE4 were packaged the way SUSE packages their's then more people
> would be on board.

Yes, it would prevent 3.5.x updates from being tested. A solution
might be to start a semi-official repository offering backports of
KDE4 for F8, but from my (limited) experience with openSUSE Build
Service backport repos, the packages there tend to be not properly
tested, and sometimes different backport repositories don't even play
well together. So it's not a decision to be taken lightly either.

[Rex Dieter]

Michel Salim wrote:
> On 04/12/2007, ne...  wrote:
> > Considering the way these are packaged, you cannot do a side by side
> > install with 3.5.x. Therefore, I do not think this is feasible. If
> > KDE4 were packaged the way SUSE packages their's then more people
> > would be on board.
>
> Yes, it would prevent 3.5.x updates from being tested. A solution
> might be to start a semi-official repository offering backports of
> KDE4 for F8

There is such a thing, the kde-redhat/unstable repo, but as the name
suggests... :)

http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

-- Rex

[Rex Dieter]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Small suggesting:
> Will it be possible to push KDE4 into F8's update-testing? (Without
> pushing the update into -updates)

kde4 development platform updates (kdelibs4, kdepimlibs, kdebase-runtime,
kdebase4), yes, but the rest of it, no.

-- Rex