On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 07:55:57PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 21. 08. 20 10:07, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > Josh listed some of the key reasons behind default streams: that
> > enterprise customers don't like to learn new commands. So default
> > streams allowed us to package content with shorter-than-RHEL-lifetime
> > and still `yum install foo` would install something the customer could
> > use.
> I guess that "shorter-than-RHEL-lifetime" is the big differentiator, i.e.
> normal rpms cannot be yanked from the distribution, but a module can be.
Actually AFAIK modules shipped at GA cannot be yanked from the distribution
either. Certainly not in Fedora.
Modules are not removed from RHEL repositories either. The difference is that
in RHEL they stop being supported. That's something what Fedora has not yet
experienced.
Bedides EPEL. I think that packages in EPEL are sometimes rebased to
incompatible versions and what happen with the unneded dependencies of the old
versions is not clear to me. I think they are marked as a dead package in
dist-git and blocked from Koji. But do they disappear from the repository? If
the stable repository is based on Koji blocked status, then then should the
removed.
-- Petr