On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:00:44 -0500 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I believe this wiki page should have been included in the announce > mail: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild > > For those that don't particularly follow devel day-to-day, the blurb > about the XZ change is pretty uninformative. I've tried to dig back a > bit and it seems the XZ change is to pick up XZ 5.0. It seems the > rebuild was done to fix Delta RPM generation? From a package > standpoint, will that mean that F14 is incapable of reading F15 RPMs? > Does that impact mock? The only case it hits is deltas. If you have a package that was built in f14, and then a update happens in f15, the delta wouldn't work right. (At least this is my understanding). mock shouldn't be affected, nor should f14/f15 rpm read interop. > I'd be happy to flesh out the change a bit more in detail if someone > could point me at what is really changing in terms of XZ compression > and what it means going forward. Better late than never. Yeah, I wish I could find a good cite... Perhaps the deltarpm and/or xz maintainers could chime in with the exact info. kevin
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