[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

[Frank Griffin]

andré wrote:
> But wouldn't most users of cooker just take some packages from cooker
> to install on their stable release ?  Even if it's a computer used
> only for testing purposes ?

That's an ancient issue in MDV.  Installing cooker packages on stable
releases doesn't work, because compilers and versions change
incompatibly in ways that rpm can't or doesn't track, e.g. kernel versions.