On Saturday 31 January 2009 23:55:44 seth vidal wrote: > 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. At which point, please, please, PLEASE provide a new rpm for F8, even if only in -testing and left there ;o) (*still stuck on it here at work*) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
