Re: Sanity check on package versions

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2018-05-20 at 08:30 -0700, stan wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2018 13:07:35 +0100
> Russel Winder  wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Lots of the fc29 package have a number of fc28 and fc27 package
> > dependencies. Is this how it works, or will at some point all the
> > fc28 and fc27 dependencies get recompiled to be fc29?
> 
> This is how it works for releases that aren't mass rebuild releases.  I
> don't think f29 is a mass rebuild release.  If an updated package gets
> released during the lifetime of f29, it will be an f29 package.
> 
> I'm not sure of how mass rebuilds are scheduled, but F28 was a mass
> rebuild release.  If there are packages before that in rawhide, they
> probably failed to build during the mass rebuild, and weren't
> replaced.  This also happens if you have an existing rawhide that rolls
> through several releases, since obsoletes and orphans will not get
> rebuilt.  I had a rawhide with packages all the way back to f24 because
> of that.  Caused problems with updates, because those old packages
> wanted to hang onto their old dependencies.

I was on a campaign to remove as many fc1* and fc2[0-8] packages as I assumed
they were garbage that had not been collected. Also one or two were causing
upgrade problem for exactly the reason you highlight.

I found a fc26 package that I actually need, and various fc27 and fc28
packages that would cause the removal of needed or necessary fc29 packages.
All others I deleted since any dependent packages that went were also no
useful for me.

I seems though that this mix of a few f27 and a number of f28 packages is
normal for an f29 Rawhide, so that is fine.

-- 
Russel.
==
Dr Russel Winder  t: +44 20 7585 2200
41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077
London SW11 1EN, UK   w: www.russel.org.uk


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Re: Sanity check on package versions

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2018-05-20 at 17:32 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Russel Winder wrote:
> 
> > Lots of the fc29 package have a number of fc28 and fc27 package
> > dependencies. Is this how it works
> 
> Yes, that's not unexpected.
> 

Thanks, my mind is now at rest on this one. :-)

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