On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 05:39 -0700, Steve G wrote: > >Fedora maintainers have not rebuilt these packages for Fedora 7 > >to avoid making end users download the packages for only a release tag > >change. > > This is bull. Most people download an iso which contains the old version. IOW, > you download it *anyways*. The only people this might help is rawhide users and > people updating via yum - which if I recall, is not officially supported. I'd > like to see this policy changed in F8 so that admins/users can spot failed > upgrades or orphaned packages. That is far greater value than saying its to save > bandwidth when it doesn't. I tend to agree. If I saw a fc6 package on my anaconda updated fc7 system, I would likely think something has failed to update. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
