At the January GDB meeting Markus Schultz and Andreas Unterkircher
outlined a new proposed method for handling emergency rollback of a
release once a bug has been found.
In particular on page 6 of Andreas talk they suggest having a production
repository and a previous version repository for the rpms.
In the event of a problem a link would be switched back to point at the
previous release thus stopping any more downloads of a faulty release,
but this does leave the institutes that have already upgraded with an
awkward manual reversal procedure.
My suggestion of just releasing an higher numbered rpm with the bug
removed was not favoured.
We would like to ask you your opinions of this scheme so a UK feedback
response can be made.
Thanks Pete
GDB meeting http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=45461
Andreas Unterkircher's talk
http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?sessionId=5&resId=1&materialId=1
&confId=45461
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