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Subject: Re: The updates firehose
From: Pete Chown <1 () 234 ! cx>
Date: 2007-06-18 15:03:22
Message-ID: f566rq$43m$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> Are people complaining? Are we actually breaking stuff in the process?
Since you particularly asked, I will say that the volume of updates is a
problem for me. (Normally I don't believe in complaining about volunteer
efforts, so I would have kept quiet.)
You asked if you were breaking stuff in the process. This morning I was
hit by this problem, which appears to result from the PAM update:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244534
Although actually downgrading the PAM package is easy, it did take a
certain amount of time. I had to work out what was going on, check that
downgrading wouldn't leave my system vulnerable, and so on.
I also eventually gave up trying to use a Wacom tablet with Fedora. Most
times a kernel update came out, the tablet would fail, always in a
slightly different way. It could generally be made to work again, but
eventually I felt it was taking too much time, and went back to a normal
PS/2 mouse.
> Are you upset with the amount of bandwith we're eating or just based on
> principal?
Actually the raw bandwidth isn't the important thing for me. The
frustration comes from updates that don't work properly, forcing me to
spend time debugging a system that was previously working.
The perfect solution, IMHO, would be two separate update streams. There
would be a "recommended updates" stream for security patches and fixes
for major bugs. Then there would be an "optional updates" stream for
minor bugs, new upstream versions, that sort of thing. Then I could
install all the recommended updates, but I could leave the optional
updates unless I particularly needed the improved functionality.
It might be that the "recommended updates" are almost identical to the
RHEL fixes, since they would have the same goal.
Pete
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