On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 15:58 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 15:03 -0400, James Antill wrote: > > While it's not good packaging, most of the time these bad versions > > don't cause any problems. > > It's better to have the packages that are supported (to the extent that > the community provides support) for the distribution version being used > and won't appear in "package-cleanup --orphans". AIUI, there is no > correspondence between the release numbers of a package in different > Fedora versions, so the higher-release F12 package may lack fixes that > the lower-release F13 package has. > > > If you want to get rid of them "easily" though, feel free to install > > the yum from rawhide and run "distro-sync". > > I'm looking forward to using "distro-sync". Will PackageKit change to > do "distro-sync" instead of "update"? I think it should. > that's going to be up to the pk maintainer(s). but I don't think moving to distro-sync necessarily makes sense there. distro-sync is mostly valuable for folks playing between two releases. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
