247293 - RPMs needed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Ondrej Svetlik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510

I (and many others) would like to test you cutting edge technology, but there
are no RPMs of new releases (rcX, alpha, beta). I think you're losing your
testers this way.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

dupe of 'RFE: "nightly" RPMs should be built on a regular basis (by an automated
process)'

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91101 ***

Comment 2

[Aleksey Nogin]

Bug 91101 was closed as WONTFIX. But if RPMs of nightlies is too much, may be we could still have release and milestone (alpha/beta/rc) ones?

Comment 3

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Bug 91101 was closed as WONTFIX. But if RPMs of nightlies is too much, may be
> we could still have release and milestone (alpha/beta/rc) ones?

If you're interested in RPMs for releases, you should get these from your distro-of-choice (Redhat, etc.)

Comment 4

[Aleksey Nogin]

(In reply to comment #3)

> If you're interested in RPMs for releases, you should get these from your
> distro-of-choice (Redhat, etc.)
> 
Fair enough. But what about alphas/betas/rcs? Citing the original report:

(In reply to comment #0)

> I (and many others) would like to test you cutting edge technology, but there
> are no RPMs of new releases (rcX, alpha, beta). I think you're losing your
> testers this way.

I fully agree with the reporter here.

Comment 5

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> 
> > If you're interested in RPMs for releases, you should get these from your
> > distro-of-choice (Redhat, etc.)
> > 
> Fair enough. But what about alphas/betas/rcs? Citing the original report:

If we're not releasing RPMs for releases, there's little incentive to do so for alphas/betas/rcs.

We've been down this road before:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86068
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91101
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138695

For alphas/betas/rcs, the tarball should work just fine for testers (they are, in some ways, easier than RPMs [no root access required, etc.])

WONTFIX.