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Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it?Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it?Posted Mar 16, 2006 16:05 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)Parent article: Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules The message is dated March 15. The release date is March 20. Does it take 5 days to push the distro to the mirrors? Or is Fedora busy printing disks? Isn't a community based distribution supposed to have a shorter turnaround time for the bugs? This is one of the bugs that should be fixed quickly - it's in a package that everyone uses, and the fix is simple, straightforward and well understood. I have no problems with being Fedora's guinea pig as long as the experiment results are not discarded or delayed beyond reasonable time.
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Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it? Posted Mar 16, 2006 16:52 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027) [Link] Yes, it does take 5 days to perform a clean build+check of 4500 packages, then push 27GB to each of the 250 mirrors. Approximately: (x86 + x86_64 + ppc) * (CD + DVD) * (3GB Core binary + 1GB Extras binary) + (2.5GB Core source + 0.5GB Extras source).
Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it? Posted Mar 16, 2006 22:29 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] Well, I'd say that other distributions do not rebuild the whole archive with itself immediately before releasing, probably because they don't need to -- there are better ways to ensure binary sanity.
If Fedora *wants* to do this exercise of their build system, fine. Their choice. Other distributions might decide that fixing problems which crop up at the last minute (and impact a nontrivial number of users) are slightly more important.
Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it? Posted Mar 17, 2006 8:00 UTC (Fri) by fenrus (guest, #31654) [Link] several people claim "huge impact" of this bug.. but that's overstated. The workaround for the nvidia driver for example is 3 lines of C. Yawn.Hardly critical at all.
Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it? Posted Mar 17, 2006 8:41 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] That's exactly my point.
Three lines of code. Yawn.
Affecting a whole lot of people. Not-so-yawn.
Rebuilding everything in the distribution because of a three-line fix like this one (if that's in fact what's going on -- I'm using Ubuntu -- their release process definitely does NOT work that way) makes ... slightly less than no sense whatsoever.
Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it? Posted Mar 17, 2006 15:16 UTC (Fri) by fenrus (guest, #31654) [Link] three lines of code *IN THE NVIDIA DRIVER*.
which Fedora obviously doesn't ship (for legal and open source reasons)
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