A quick poll of the office here in Glasgow resulted in a consensus of
"this is really silly, why can't they just release a higher versioned,
fixed, rpm, like everyone else does".
Sam
2009/1/26 Peter Gronbech <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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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