OK, rawhide is being updated but rhn for servern-beta2 is not. For testing, except is specific cases, do you want us to stick pretty closely to what you publish in rhn or do you want us to do lots of updated from rawhide when they appear?
Sometimes rawhide contains packages which have big problems whereas rhn (even for test) is usually pretty good. For testing, I expect that something may go wrong and may even trash the system requiring a re-install ... this is an assumed condition.
How do you want us to proceed?
BTW, both bugzilla and rhn servers seem to be having problems right now.
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:41:44AM -0400, Gene C. wrote:
OK, rawhide is being updated but rhn for servern-beta2 is not. For testing, except is specific cases, do you want us to stick pretty closely to what you publish in rhn or do you want us to do lots of updated from rawhide when they appear?
In regards to the test releases, they are just two different ways of pushing the same package set, as far as we are concerned. The RHN updates channel is pending on folks in the RHN group; feel free to update from rawhide.
Sometimes rawhide contains packages which have big problems whereas rhn (even for test) is usually pretty good.
We're pushing packages from the same source for rawhide and the test updates channel in rhn (once it's up and running). They should be generally equivalent.
michaelkjohnson
"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book." Linux Application Development -- Ben Franklin http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/
I would like to see severn2 updates to resolve current bugs with programs. Rawhide does have a counter-attack of introducing problems into the system, like mine is mozilla grey (or gray) screens on me and has to be killall -9 mozilla-bin to drop out of the screen.
I'm getting the hang of using Netscape 7.1 or various alternative programs when things go badly with rawhide upgrades.
severn2 updates should = WORKSFORME improvements that are not yet QA'ed.
rawhide = never know what'll be on the trails.
Just my opinion.
Jim
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Gene C. wrote:
OK, rawhide is being updated but rhn for servern-beta2 is not. For testing, except is specific cases, do you want us to stick pretty closely to what you publish in rhn or do you want us to do lots of updated from rawhide when they appear?
Sometimes rawhide contains packages which have big problems whereas rhn (even for test) is usually pretty good. For testing, I expect that something may go wrong and may even trash the system requiring a re-install ... this is an assumed condition.
How do you want us to proceed?
BTW, both bugzilla and rhn servers seem to be having problems right now.