Ready for new RPM version?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 26 19:48:29 UTC 2009


Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> Are we ready to consider a brand new RPM version for F11, amidst all this
> mass-rebuild-for-strong-hash chaos and just days to go to development 
> freeze?
> 
> We just put out first rpm 4.7.0 beta: 
> http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2009-February/000016.html. 
> This is nothing like the 4.4.2.x -> 4.6.0 leap-of-faith upgrade last 
> year but it's still non-trivial amount of changes to get the kind of 
> memory use and performance improvements that 4.7.0 has, which is why 
> it's not just 4.6.1.
> 
> The wording of Fedora Feature policy pretty explicitly singles out each 
> RPM upgrade to be a Feature... I would like to hear a preliminary 
> opinion on it: if everybody is going to be an outright "NO!" then I'm 
> not going to waste my time with writing up a Feature page. If it's 
> "maybe" or "it depends" then ok, will submit as a feature in time for 
> tomorrows FESCo meeting.
> 
> So, should I bother with a RPM 4.7 feature page or not?


One question:

"# Support for the new XZ (aka LZMA) compression format in package 
payloads and sources has been added."

Is this still considered experimental? Are we considering switching to 
it by default? Any benchmarks?

Rahul










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