On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:35:27 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > > I've run been running Fedora since FC5 and I have never seen an > > update problem like this before. > > Congratulations! ;o) This incident is just one of many. It has happened > before several times, with Firefox and with other packages. Firefox > affects almost everyone, though. > > Interestingly, for Fedora 8 there was an attempt at rebuilding all > dependencies and publishing them at once, as a single update (see > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/firefox ), and that has > been done before. For F8, only one pkg slipped through (evolution-rss). > For F9, only a few packages were rebuilt actually (as can be seen at above > url, too). > > It's a workflow problem, a communication problem, a resource problem, and > a policy problem. > > The firefox maintainer can't be blamed if other packages cause trouble > because they create a strict dependency on a specific firefox > version. Semi-automated rebuilds of dependencies might help, if the spec > files were specially crafted to not require any manual editing at all (and > in the case of a dependency on firefox would pick up the new firefox > version automatically). Currently, however, a new package is not available > in the builtroots unless it's pushed to the stable repo or release > engineers add it on demand). > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Since I never install Firefox from Fedora, I install the tarball from the firefox web site, I guess I must have been lucky doing updates. Either that or my brain is choosing to forget the failures and remember the successes :-) Paolo
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