Re: Planning the Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild

[Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka ioa s u-tokyo ac jp>]

Jon Masters wrote, at 02/24/2009 02:55 AM +9:00:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 11:53 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/StrongerHashes
>>   All rpms rebuilt for sha256 rpm hashes
> 
> This is done and redhat-rpm-config is rebuilding.
> 
> However, I don't think enough consideration was given to the upgrade
> path. As I raise on IRC, due to this change rpm will now consider *all*
> local config files to have been changed by the user and use .rpmnew
> files at upgrade time. I don't think enough consideration has been given
> to this, to the impact upon upgrade, or to the need to ensure that
> everyone doing an upgrade is aware of this.
> 

A question for this change:

How does this change affect the file marked as %verify(not size md5 mtime)?
Should I change the string "md5" to something else? And how will this
file be treated with upgrade?

Regards,
Mamoru