On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 05:41:35PM +0000, Andre Robatino wrote: > The recent change in xz compression settings caused md5 mismatch errors in > rebuilding RPMs (since applydeltarpm doesn't know the difference between the old > and new compression). This resulted in significant work for releng. To avoid > this issue in the future, what about using different names and packages for the > different compression types (i.e., xz1, xz2, etc.) so they can be installed > simultaneously and identified properly? The xz packages are small, and using > separate packages should hopefully mean little to no extra work for the > maintainer. The same method could be used in the future for any new compression > type that replaces xz. > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-October/144651.html > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644046 > > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4224 > This could require different naames for the library too which will get a bit harder than just the binary name. -Toshio
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