How come? - re: fedora-package-announce at redhat.com ?
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Thu Jun 1 14:06:56 UTC 2006
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
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