Fedora 11 Mass Rebuilds

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 16:44:54 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:46:27AM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "PM" == Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> writes:
> 
> PM> The strong file hashes are just the first messenger that got
> PM> through, and the message it brings is that it's time for people to
> PM> wake up from the sleep of last hundred, err, ten years and realize
> PM> that rpm can and does change.
> 
> I think we realize this.  rpm change is generally a good thing.
> However, it would still be nice to have some way to do this.  I
> recognize that it may not be completely safe to push rpm updates to
> supported Fedora releases, but it would be nice to have some basic
> ideas of how we might go about getting a newer rpm onto, say, an F-9
> box assuming that we're willing to deal with any weirdness that
> results.

How about just having a parallel installable new RPM build for existing
distros. So mock would explicitly use the rpm-4.6 for creating build
roots, but the host system can continue using its existing RPM version
without risk to its operation

Daniel
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