On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 01:30:59PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 13 January 2016 at 13:13, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > so there is no justification to declare one need to install from scratch > > just because rpm which works for many years fine changes it's storage format > > I don't think anyone said there was a need to reinstall from scratch. Well the feature writeup is rather fuzzy on this. It says that in Fedora 24 rpm will be able to read both old and new format, but it also says that future RPM versions will drop support for the old format. So unless there is a mandatory data format conversion during some Fedora upgrade, then at some point RPM will cease to be able to read existing installs with the old format which could imply a need to reinstall. IMHO the feature proposal text needs to be more explicit about the upgrade path and exactly when any data conversion will take place, to avoid leaving existing installs with old format stuck with Fedora 25 rpm (or later) drops BDB support entirely. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
