Heads up for rawhide users: if you missed an update, you're stuck

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Tomas Mraz wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 00:27 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> "PM" == Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> writes:
>>>
>>> PM> This is just totally bogus.
>>>
>>> And yet somehow it matches reality and has helped on several systems.
>>> I guess I'll leave the question of why to the experts.  Sorry for
>>> helping.
>>
>> Apologies, I missed the fact that F11 alpha still had 4.6.0-rcX so
>> upgrading from fresh install of that would fail.
>>
>> Maybe we should build rpm itself with md5 checksums for now (just a matter
>> of rebuilding with a spec override for the hash algorithm)?
>
> That would be great. But we will need to do the same for other packages
> that are pulled in on the 'yum update rpm' done on the F11 Alpha. Of
> course if there are such other packages.

Okay, done now: db4 and rpm itself have been built with md5 file digests 
so upgrades from F11-alpha should work again once these hit rawhide for 
real.

 	- Panu -