On Wednesday 29 July 2009 05:30:57 pm Quentin Armitage wrote: > The report shows there is a new version of rpm, version > rpm-4.7.1-2.fc11.i586. The previous version, announced in the rawhide > report 20090722 was rpm-4.7.1.1.fc12.i686. This "update" appears to be > going the wrong way, and it seems strange for an f12 version to be > replaced by an f11 version. > > I noticed this because a yum update "updated" my rpm from > 4.7.1.1.fc12.i686 to 4.7.1.2.fc11.i586. > > Are there other packages that are getting onto the Rawhide updates that > are from earlier versions of Fedora, and inadvertently superseding the > (later) Rawhide versions? it was done on purpose this is because the newer rpm version build in rawhide has a dependency on the new glibc. which needs the newer rpm with xz compression. we wanted to make sure that people would be able to update there systems so we tagged in the newer one from F-11 that provides xz support but doesnt need the newer glibc. Dennis
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