Mike A. Harris wrote: >On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Alan R. Becker wrote: > > > >>Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:06:43 -0400 >> >>found a new XFree86-4.1.0-25.i386.rpm (18.241M, June 14 02). >>A few weeks ago, I had pulled XFree86-4.1.0-25.i386.rpm >>(19.681M, April 26 02). Obviously, these 2 rpms are >> >> >Yes, generally that is the way things are handled. In this case, >some fonts had to be removed from the packages immediately, and >the normal way of doing things was not fast enough to meet the >requirements. As such the fonts were removed and the packages >respun without changing the release number. > > I wonder which fonts? >I personally would have bumped the release number in a way that >was compatible, however the reason that was not done if I >understand correctly is that we also had to respin the ISO images >with these changes, and bumping the release numbers would have >meant completely regenerating the rpmdb, hdlist, and creating a > > That's a long standing BUG in the installer. It should be possible to Add/change packages to updated versions more easily. Droping/replacing the packages in RedHat/RPMS and a changing file somewhere in RedHat/base should be enough.
