Re: More explanation requested for warning about rawhide inheriting updates

2012-03-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Eric Smith wrote: I've seen that done, but didn't know the purpose. I think it's the right case in my situation. I've updated muParser in rawhide, and am pushing updates for F16 and F17. muParser has a new so version. Meshlab depends on muParser, but meshlab currently won't build in F17

More explanation requested for warning about rawhide inheriting updates

2012-03-10 Thread Eric Smith
The Join the package collection maintainers page gives the warning: Be sure that you build for rawhide (master) branch before pushing updates for any other branches! Otherwise, those updates will get inherited into rawhide, which is almost certainly not what you want. I've never really

Re: More explanation requested for warning about rawhide inheriting updates

2012-03-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 02:14:50 -0800, Eric Smith e...@brouhaha.com wrote: The Join the package collection maintainers page gives the warning: I've never really understood that, but it's never previously caused me any concern. Since I am now in a situation where I want to push an update

Re: More explanation requested for warning about rawhide inheriting updates

2012-03-10 Thread Eric Smith
Bruno Wolff III wrote: Rawhide inherits from updates of the most recent branch, which is currently the branched release (f17). Updates will inherit from the release. A package is only inherited if there are no builds for it at the current level. [and more good explanation] Thanks! That's