On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:46:27AM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "PM" == Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > PM> The strong file hashes are just the first messenger that got > PM> through, and the message it brings is that it's time for people to > PM> wake up from the sleep of last hundred, err, ten years and realize > PM> that rpm can and does change. > > I think we realize this. rpm change is generally a good thing. > However, it would still be nice to have some way to do this. I > recognize that it may not be completely safe to push rpm updates to > supported Fedora releases, but it would be nice to have some basic > ideas of how we might go about getting a newer rpm onto, say, an F-9 > box assuming that we're willing to deal with any weirdness that > results. How about just having a parallel installable new RPM build for existing distros. So mock would explicitly use the rpm-4.6 for creating build roots, but the host system can continue using its existing RPM version without risk to its operation Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
