On 12/13/10 1:38 PM, Daniel Russel wrote:
Aren't all lab desktops running the same distribution?
Not today they're not. Your machine, for example, runs Fedora 13, and mine, Fedora 14. I typically don't upgrade all of the desktops simultaneously because 1) this would be massively disruptive and 2) early adopters play with the new Fedora releases for a little while (and compare them with the old) so we have a chance to report any bugs back to the Fedora folks.
(and old versions will become unusable if any dependency's API changes, when there is a Fedora update, etc.).Yes, it is a problem when packages are updated during the day.
No, your suggestion was that we have builds dating back months. There will obviously be many packages updated between the time such a build is made and today.
Ben
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