On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 13:36 -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote: > Greetings, > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Since there wasn't a mass rebuild for F22, the F22 repos have some > > F21 > > packages, which is perfectly fine. However, I've seen a few people > > worry about this - the most recent query came up on the devel list. > > Should we write a short post on the magazine explaining the > > situation > > and allay users' fears? (and twitter and facebook and G+ and so on) > > Why are there fears? > > In some earlier Fedora releases, going back to when it had Core as > part of the name even... a single release might have packages that > had 2, 3, 4 or maybe 5 release version packages as part of it. I > guess there were just less changes back then or something... but it > was rare when all packages had to be rebuilt each release. In fact > rebuilding everything is a fairly recent phenomenon caused by things > like changing compression format used by the package manager or major > glibc changes... or something unusual like that... or at least that > is my layman understanding. > > In any event, the people who might "fear" seeing multiple release > version packages for a new release are exactly the people who won't > even be looking at package filenames to see the version numbers in > there. I mean... folks download an .iso file, boot it (on a physical > machine or VM), do the install... and then use some GUI package > manager (like GNOME Software or yumex) to find software... and they > don't usually get into the nitty-gritty of filenames or complete > package names... or am I mistaken? > > So it came up on the devel list... devel's should know better I would > think... but I guess that just goes to show that everyone on a list > isn't necessarily hardcore. Another example would be me on this list > while mostly being a passive observer. > > In any event, it might be an interesting history lesson of a story > for the Fedora Magazine site but I doubt there are more than a small > handful of fearful people. :) > > TYL, Well, the entire point is that *we* know, but new users may not :) Not fears, but maybe confusion or just people wondering. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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