On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:44 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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 Parallel installable rpm would be extremely difficult considering that mock uses yum and yum uses rpm through rpm-python. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
