lots of pre-F10 packages in f10
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh at mimosa.com
Sat Mar 21 21:20:37 UTC 2009
I just noticed that my Fedora 10 X86_64 installation DVD has a fair number
of packages labelled fc9 rather than fc10. In fact some are
fc<earlier>.
1 is fc6
8 are fc7
16 are fc8
355 are fc9
2272 are fc10
Why would the packagers not rebuild all packages for a release? Is
there not a risk that some of these packages would be built against
libraries that have changed? I didn't think that the ABI for fc9 was
supported by fc10.
It turns out that all fc[678] packages included are "noarch". So this
is *probably* safe, but not guaranteed.
I came across this when I could not boot the Fedora 10 Live CD and
found that the problem was in the savage X11 viddeo driver. That
driver is an fc9 package.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491488
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