On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:58:49 -0500 Bill Nottingham <nott...@redhat.com> wrote:
> seth vidal (skvi...@fedoraproject.org) said: > > On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:28:58 -0500 > > Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 13:17 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > > > > > If the issue was only 'newer is better' then rpm can easily get > > > > around it. Hell, so can yum, now. > > > > > > But koji, createrepo and such can't, right? > > > > > > createrepo is version agnostic. It cares not at all. > > > > koji can build whatever, too.. I'm not sure how those are related > > here. > > Well, on the koji side there are build concerns, but that's somewhat > separate from giving users something they can stay on stably. > > We don't ship in a way that easily allows this though, now. > Admittedly, this is due to the sheer *amount* of stuff involved in > just maintaining single versions of things, and how much that would > jump if we started having multiple versions available all the time. > That being said, as long as we're willing to take the hit in disk > space & repodata size, and we're willing to nuke deltas from orbit > (they won't scale to this, sorry), we could certainly support having > multiple versions of everything available for easier rollback. > > Bill Bill, provided the above is not an unfunded mandate - then yes - I think you're right. I don't think we could do it w/o money. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
