Fedora 22 Repositories contain Fedora 21 Packages?

[Sumit Bhardwaj]

Thanks a lot for the quick clarifications Matthew, Kevin and Josh! This 
is why I love Fedora project, the most awesome community we have! :)

Regards,
Sumit Bhardwaj

On Saturday 23 May 2015 01:16 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2015 01:10:21 +0530
> Sumit Bhardwaj <sumitkbhardwaj at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a fresh installation of Fedora 22 RC1 with all the extra stuff
>> I needed installed. Today I was going through the list of packages
>> installed on my system and was a little bit surprised to find some
>> packages ending in "fc21" in their names. Now, for an upgraded system
>> that might happen, but on a clean install, why I am getting FC21
>> packages?
>>
>> Because per my understanding, for any branched release, packages are
>> completely rebuilt. Then how did this happen?
> There was no mass rebuild for f22. There was not time in the schedule
> to do it and still release around when we wanted to.
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> Additionally, there's aways some few packages that fail to rebuild in
> the mass rebuild but yet continue to work fine. So, on any release you
> could see packages from older versions, it's nothing to worry about.
>
>> More to the point, do I have to care about or do something about
>> these? Will these be auto upgraded later with their FC22 counterparts?
> No. No need to worry. When/if they need an update for some reason, they
> would be built with a newer version and you would update.
>
> kevin
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