Jon Peatfield wrote:
> I may be just getting very confused or my mirror might be broken
> but...
> 
> On Fri, 26 May 2006, Connie Sieh wrote:
> 
>> *     There is a fastbug repo area to correspond to the vendors fasttrack
>> *     This is not on by default.
>> *
>> *     bugfix-308 - reserved for packages from the next Update
>> *     This is not on by default
>>
> 
> But in my mirror I see:
> 
> 307/*/errata/
>      SL/
>      bugfix/
>      bugfix-308/
>      fastbugs/
> 
> bugfix-308/ is empty of rpms (as I'd expect), but bugfix/ seems to
> contain a large number of rpms (and not the same as was in 305/.../
> which means it wasn't just copied over from that tree, but it does
> seem to contain packages which are superceded by ones in the main SL
> tree.  e.g.
> 
> $ find  307/i386/ -name 'util-linux*.rpm' 
> 307/i386/SL/RPMS/util-linux-2.11y-31.11.i386.rpm
> 307/i386/errata/bugfix/RPMS/util-linux-2.11y-31.10.i386.rpm
> 
> so I'm not sure what these represent (fixes which were new in some
> previous version?)
> 
> In the 43/ tree bugfix is a symlink to the bugfix-44/ directory.
> 
> fastbugs/ contains updates which arn't elsewhere (e.g. stuff like
> rdist-6.1.5-35.30.3) but has an 's' on the end over what was in
> the release-notes (and is different from what is in the 43/
> tree).  Is there a reason for this?
> 
> I really don't mind what the names are but if this is likely to
> change I'd prefer it to happen before I add fastbugs/ to too many
> scripts and config files...
> 
>  -- Jon

Hi Jon,
The bugfix/fastbugs stuff is/was still getting sorted out.  It started 
out as this great idea, that unfortunatly both Connie and Myself had two 
different ideas, yet both thought the other was thinking what we were 
thinking.  So there was a little bit of confusion.

Then, when we got things sorted out, I made a typo in the yum-conf for 
4.3, in which I made it 'fastbug' instead of 'fastbugs' ... ugg .... 
And just so you know, that is going to be fixed in a yum-conf update for 
4.3 that will be comming out soon.  There were some other minor problems 
with that yum-conf and yum-conf-4x, that need to get fixed.

So, the end result is going to be

bugfix-308
bugfix-44
These are repositories that point to just the non-errata updates that 
come out with the next release.  Currently those should be empty.  They 
will be populated when update 8, and update 4 come out.  (The next 
releases will have bugfix-45 and maybe bugfix-309, and so forth)

fastbugs
Yes, it has an 's' on the end.  RedHat has started a new policy of 
releasing tested rpm's out before the full update.  This is useful so 
that people no longer have to go to some person's redhat home page to 
download an rpm.  These rpm's should make it into the actual update's.

Now, because of the mixup's between me and Connie, and my terrible 
spelling, we have the following links.  These links will not be there 
for the next releases, they are for compatibility reason's only.

fastbug -> fastbugs
bugfix -> bugfix-308
bugfix -> bugfix-44

If you are writting scripts, do not point to these, they are for this 
set of releases only.
Why does the bugfix in 307 have some rpm's in it?
We're currently looking into that, but expect them to dissapear, and the 
directory to just be a link to bugfix-308
Troy
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