On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:14:43 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 05.06.2007 16:01, Axel Thimm wrote: > > [...] > > An updated FC6 will carry foo-1.2.3-5.fc6 and the ISO will not offer > > foo-1.2.3-4.fc7 unless it is forced by anaconda (like kernels). That's > > a feature not a bug, as otherwise you would suddenly introduce an > > already fixed security issue. > > It would even bad in other situations as well; say foo-1.2.3-5.fc6 > introduced a configfile change that foo-1.2.3-4.fc7 does not understand. > So you might end with a unworkable foo if foo gets "downgraded" to > foo-1.2.3-4.fc7 while "upgrading" from FC6 to F-7 Only and only if F-7 offers everything the FC6 build of foo needs and when that is guaranteed by the distributor. That includes all of foo's requirements, e.g. compatibility libraries. Remember that upwards compatible APIs can still use new SONAMEs, so the fc6 build of foo might require a library SONAME that is not available for fc7. This is firstboot fun. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
