Bad Fedora

This is special interrest group devoted to point bad things in Fedora distribution.

• Updates Criteria Summary/Brainstorming
• Slow chain build
• yum cannot downgrade after package split.
• Back-porting changes into spec file in older Fedora release is hard work because of package version and relase hard-coded in spec header and and in spec changelog.
• Configuration file updates notifications are lost in yum output. There should be a resume after yum run and a tool helping administrator to merge configuration files changes. See etc-update utlity in Gentoo.
• Yum locks database at start up. This prevent simultanous read-only operations. Example: yum upgrade shows proposed changes and stops to ask user for confirmation. User sees unfamiliar package, he asks other yum instance for details (package description, reverse depencecies), however he cannot because yum blocks on database lock.
• Fedora pkgdb has no batch interface. Adding a packager to more than few packages manually is undoable.
• No mass rebuild script doing dependency ordering exists.