On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:47 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On 20 Jun 2008, at 07:47, Jindrich Novy wrote: > > The exact timing for the new rpm release is not clear yet, but there > > would be a need of mass rebuild to fully take advantage of the new > > compression. > > I guess we also need to stage things appropriately so that those > updating to Fedora x (where x is the LZMA supported distro) by using > on-line update (yeah I know its not supported as such but its always > worked well in the past), are able to get the initial upgrade > requirements onto their box (which I guess would be rpm, yum & fedora- > release) without being stymied by an rpm for those packages being > compressed with LZMA when their own rpm cannot cope with it... This is why upgrades via anaconda[1] are the recommended method. The anaconda environment then has the newer bits and things can Just Work (tm) without requiring weird jumping through hoops Jeremy [1] With or without preupgrade -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
