Re: Re: BETA 2

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On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 10:15:09AM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> >Well ... the majority of our problems are coming from the fact that
> >upstream did not build everything on the same builder.  They
> >grabbed .fc6 stuff as is and used it (not necessarily compiled on their
> >el5 builder).
> >Many items are compiled against different kernel-headers, etc.
> Wow! Why did they do that? Anybody knows?

Red Hat seems to have, for a long time, followed a policy of not rebuilding
packages which have been through QA unless there is a reason to rebuild
them. So, packages which were built against older headers stay that way
until there's either a new package release or a problem.

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Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx          <http://mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>              <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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