How come? - re: fedora-package-announce at redhat.com ?

[William Case]

OK.  Thanks Paul.
On Thu, 2006-01-06 at 14:58 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> > 
> > Just wondering.  I only have Fedora Core and Extras repositories in my
> > yum (including develop etc repos).  fedora-package-announce has sent me
> > about 5 announcements about upgrades while yum actually upgraded 11
> > packages.  Shouldn't the numbers match?
> 
> The announcements relate to the update of a source package, which, when 
> built, may produce multiple subpackages.
> 
> For instance, the hplip announcement yesterday covered hplip, hpijs, and 
> libsane-hpaio, which are all built at the same time from the same source 
> package. So it's expected that there would be more packages than 
> announcements.
> 
> Paul.

Just wanted reassurance that I wasn't missing announcements.  Apparently
not.


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Regards Bill