Horst H. von Brand wrote:
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David Timms wrote:
Hi, if I am testing a particular update say dvd+rw-tools, if the test
package is pushed into updates, are the rpm's identical ?
Or are they identical before they are signed for each repository
{updates, updates-testing} ?
Yes.
Expanding a bit on this, the Developer Guidelines ask for the release to be
bumped each time a new package is built, however minor the change.
Which makes sense or you would have total confusion with v4.5.6 works
here, but not over here because they could have been different version
of identical package.
From the point of view of an updates-testing compared to an updates
package of the same version, is the package actually rebuilt (ie from
.src/spec), or is it just the signing authority that is different ?
Actually, I found a package that is currently in both repos:
$ ls -lgG virt-manager-0.2.6-3.fc6.i386.rpm*
-rw-r--r-- 1 566479 Jan 7 14:03 virt-manager-0.2.6-3.fc6.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 566479 Jan 7 14:03 virt-manager-0.2.6-3.fc6.i386.rpm.test
-same size
$ md5sum vir*
ebcb47c6fba4a4a6707a80c375507984 virt-manager-0.2.6-3.fc6.i386.rpm
6f755debee94a707ae2513cb7d8d59bc virt-manager-0.2.6-3.fc6.i386.rpm.test
-but definitely different.
$ rpmdiff virt-manager-0.2.6-3.fc6.i386.rpm
virt-manager-0.2.6-3.fc6.i386.rpm.test
$
-but no changed files
$ diff -C 0 z.t.txt z.txt
*** info.test.txt 2007-01-07 14:07:23.000000000 +1100
--- info.txt 2007-01-07 14:07:30.000000000 +1100
***************
*** 7 ****
! Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fri 22 Dec 2006 08:36:38 AM EST, Key ID
da84cbd430c9ecf8
--- 7 ----
! Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 03 Jan 2007 02:18:34 AM EST, Key ID
b44269d04f2a6fd2
=>only the signature date and key ID is different. build host and
date are identical.
I wanted to understand how a production system might be affected by
using a updates-testing package {that solves a problem}. It seems if
that particular -testing package is eventually moved to the stable
updates, then the only detectable difference is the signing date and
time of the rpm, ie it can not introduce any binary/code differences
between a system that has the package version from either repo.
Thanks Horst.
DaveT.
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