On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 00:10 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > > No, as Seth has pointed out, luckily a newer rpm is not needed. The > > issue is to have python-hashlib available for yum. Plus some > > dependencies (urlgrabber for instance). > > That's not what the feature page says. It says an RPM backport would be too > big for F9. I think you're talking about only one part of the feature, > which is SHA256 for metadata. But the plan is to also use it everywhere > inside RPM packages, and that needs support from RPM. Config files in RPM > use MD5 to check for modification. Signatures are done on MD5 hashes. Etc. > All this is to be replaced with SHA256, which needs RPM 4.6. > To use preupgrade I don't think that's as strict a requirement. preupgrade does what it does by using yum and it's metadata to figure out what to download. It sets up a repo for anaconda and then sets up your system to boot into the installer. Now, preupgrade does do a test transaction, to look for hang ups to doing the install. That would be the one place where it might get cranky about the lack of sha256 support in rpm. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
