Ready for new RPM version?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 26 19:38:09 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> writes:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:57 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Since F-9 is still supported, isn't it a management failing to have
> >> allowed this to happen without a plan to make mock on F-9 work?
> 
> > Then you're wrong:
> > yum update rpm\* yum\*
> > that should be about it.
> 
> Oh?
> 
> [tgl at rh2 ~]$ sudo yum update rpm\* yum\*
> ...
> Setting up Update Process
> No Packages marked for Update
> [tgl at rh2 ~]$ 
> 
> What was stated a couple days ago was that back-porting the hash changes
> into pre-F10 RPM versions was completely impractical.  Has that been
> rethought?

I'm sorry, I thought you had said F10. Not F9. 

In F10 it's available.

And no - I don't think it is unreasonable to ask our developers and
maintainers to be on something vaguely recent. And if they can't be for
whatever reason it's not crazy for them to run it in a xen or kvm
instance.

-sv





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