On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 20:49 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > 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. This is the first hit for "xz compression deltarpm problem" and describes the problem perfectly ... although it is from 2009 ;) http://cedarandthistle.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/deltarpm-problems-part-ii/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
