On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:11:57PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
I could maybe buy "fedora N is built on fedora N-1", but there are two problems with that: first, you'd need a separate build farm for every branch,
With mock running directly inside Xen VMs as is the case now, then yes. But with mock running inside a tiny VM which is just launched for the purpose of the build, you shouldn't need extra build farms.
and second, fedora N-1 is still a moving target for much of the life of fedora N.
Well, this gets back to the updates policy :-)
The issue is what kernel does Fedora N-1 have, and that should hopefully be a bit more stable.
Rich.