FESCo Meeting Summary for 2007-08-09
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 10 20:28:44 UTC 2007
Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said:
>>> * FESCo approved a proposal that rebuilds in future releases will
>>> only be done if there is a technical reason for it. (i.e. not
>>> doing rebuilds just for cosmetic reasons).
>> How are end users supposed to differentiate easily packages that have not
>> been rebuild from packages that have not been updated due to E-V-R and
>> other issues after they perform an upgrade of Fedora?
>
> rpm -qa --last
>
> rpm -qa --qf "%{BUILDTIME}\n"
Wading through this information to figure out the details I wanted
doesn't seem to be as easy as something like
# rpm -qa | grep fc5
If we would make it easier that would be useful. Maybe some preinstalled
scripts?
> also... 'don't have E-V-R issues'.
That's easier said that done looking at the long list of such problems
in the regular automated reports. There are the other things like
missing obsoletes that can be responsible for left over packages.
Rahul
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