* Suren Karapetyan <surenkarapetyan(a)gmail.com> [20080503 20:51]:
Anders Karlsson wrote:
> I was under the impression that this is what 'pinning' packages was
> available for. I don't see this as a bug but as expected
> behaviour. After all, we do expect yum and it's tools up update
> all available packages unless we tell it not to.
>
> Now, if the packages were pinned, and the update script went ahead and
> updated them anyway, that would be a bug.
We expect "yum update" to update all packages.
But we (or at least me) don't expect yum (nor even yum-updatesd) to update
all packages nightly by default.
Agree about pinning, but pinning doesn't work well for rawhide cause
especially during the first half of rawhide development I would have 50%+
packages pinned.
I have only one PC at home so it needs to be at least remotely stable :)
I am not 100% sure, as I don't currently have a Debian based system to
check with, but from memory, this is what a Debian based system
does, have a cronjob that does the nightly updates. If so, the apt
package in Fedora just does what upstream (Debian) does, and we track
upstream closely, right?
The setting in /etc/sysconfig/apt would be something simple to carry a
separate patch for though. I'll shut up now. :)
/Anders