[GuidelinesChange] Prepping BuildRoot For %install

Ralf Ertzinger fedora at camperquake.de
Wed Apr 11 13:19:38 UTC 2007


Hi.

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:51:08 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:

> When the C compiler is changed, already compiled programs keep
> running. When RPM is changed, already built RPMs stop
> working.  /Thats/ what freezes RPM's behavior.

Bad comparison. RPM (as in the installer tool) is not equivalent
to the C compiler. rpmbuild (which is part of RPM) is, and changes
to rpmbuild do not affect already built packages, either.




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