daniel wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Paul Fox <p...@laptop.org> wrote: > > can you clarify the final point? if a package is in an f14 dropbox, > > and it also exists in the fedora repo, what is the result if: > > - the dropbox version is the same as the fedora version? > > - the dropbox version is newer than the fedora version? > > - the dropbox version is older than the fedora version? (but i > > hope the answer to this is the obvious "use fedora") > > In all cases the dropbox wins and the build system does not even > look in Fedora.
okay, that's pretty clear. thanks. paul > > This is noted briefly here: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RPM_Dropbox > I will expand on the description. > > > The reasoning here is as follows: if we fork package foobar-1.0-1.fc14 > for whatever exceptional reason causes us to do that, we would do it > as foobar-1.0-1.fc14.olpc1. > > If Fedora then produced a trivial update to that package such as > foobar-1.0-2.fc14, we still want our OLPC package to "win". If we were > looking at Fedora too, the unforked Fedora version would silently win > and we wouldn't even realise that our fork had been lost. > > A similar thing happens for the kernel. OLPC ships a x86 kernel with a > lower version number than that of Fedora - we obviously want OLPC's > kernel to "win" regardless of what Fedora does. > > Also, remember that this dropbox system is only supposed to be used in > exceptional cases. So regardless of any imperfections in system > behaviour, the effects should be very limited. > > > part of my question is this -- if, say, kbdshim needs a quick fix, > > it sounds like you're saying there's no point in my putting it in > > my dropbox at all. i should test with my own (private) rpm, and > > release nothing but the tarball for you or peter to deal with. is > > that right? > > Thats right. > (you are of course welcome to do the Fedora packaging yourself, but > equally I understand that this is an additional task you might prefer > not to be subjected to) > > Daniel =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel