rawhide report: 20090528 changes

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat May 30 16:00:24 UTC 2009


On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:28:29 +0200, Kevin wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > [1] To reverse the changelog entries (oldest first) in the metadata means
> > that every utility that wants to display the changelog entries must
> > reverse them once more. *urks*
> 
> Why do we care at all whether the changelog entries are newest first or
> oldest first? All I care about is that the order is consistent!
> 
>         Kevin Kofler

In RPM they are newest first, so why reverse them in the metadata?

The order is only inconsistent because createrepo sorts them, which
doesn't work because the timestamps are not accurate enough.




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