[repo-coord] disttags, useful?? (was Re: python 2.3 for RH7.3)

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Jeff Pitman wrote:

> On Monday 20 December 2004 00:50, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> > Anyway, there might be other issues, but I feel these provide a
> > compelling look at a possible rethink on disttags.  
> 
> Oh, and disttags causes us to go crazy about things like: where do we 
> fit el3 or el2 in the line from rh9 -> fc3? Trying to order different 
> lines of distros in some linear sequence doesn't work.

For different distros it does not work. But as someone once said:

	Rawhide	-> unstable
	Fedora	-> testing
	Red Hat	-> stable

If you consider this and you know el4 is extracted from fc3, it may make 
sense to allow people to upgrade from fc3 to el4. Just like I know in 
production rh7 is upgraded to el3 with little problems.

It may not be supported but it works and you can even do it remotely 
without any problems. (I've done it several times with no problems)


> So, I'm just advocating Smart to be able to do a "dist-change", instead 
> of upgrade and take what your current system has to any other distro.  
> This would make possible crazy things like el2 -> chaos -> el3 -> fc3 
> possible. Having such a mechanism would deprecate the entire idea of 
> having disttags, making our Release munges a lot more manageable.

Smart may be a solution, but disttags don't really harm. I'm not sure why 
people think disttags or repotags are harmful and should be removed from 
Release tags.

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