Robin Bowes wrote: > Any chance you could create separate -testing repos for the release > candidates, and only put released versions in the "main" repos?
I don't plan to do so, no. My repos are intended for testing¹. If you
want to use them on a regular basis you should use puppet to ensure a
specific version or, better still, use reposync to pull down the
packages and cull out anything you don't want/need. As the unexpected
downtime of fedorapeople.org earlier this week shows, relying on repos
hosted there for anything mission-critical is not wise.
It's only been in the transistion from 0.25.x to 2.6.x that the
packages in EPEL and Fedora have lagged behind my repo for very long.
Once 2.6.6 is pushed to the EPEL and Fedora stable repos, I hope to
return to that pattern.
¹ As stated in the README file in the repo:
These repositories usually provide the latest facter and puppet
releases, including betas and release candidates. Use them
carefully. If they break your production systems, you get to keep
the pieces and explain it to the folks that write your paycheck.
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