On Tue, 12 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Well, it had worked for ages.
"it had worked" != sane
"it had worked" != compliant to guidelines
"it had worked" != it's not broken
Many things happen to "work", but are still completely broken.
From rpm POV it's perfectly legal for any number of packages to share
identical files, and that still works. What doesn't work is sharing files
between packages using different file hash algorithm, so if you need to
share across Centos >= 3 <-> Fedora >= 11 you need to build the package
for lowest common denominator, meaning md5 file hashes. Fedora 11 changes
the default algorithm from md5 to sha256 in redhat-rpm-config, producing
packages that are incompatible with rpm < 4.6.0 but specs and macro
configuration can override that.
Whether it's against Fedora guidelines is another question, but since this
was about a package from a 3rd party repository...
- Panu -
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