Hi,
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 12:43, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
For those folks that want to eventually have optional RPM diffs for upgrades, please do not continue the discussion here.
This is the Fedora devel list, right? Maybe more on topic on the RPM list, but still a development issue, so IMHO rather on topic in this forum.
I haven't fe seen people talking about kernel issues being referred to kernel.org, because their discussions would be more on topic there. If you are not interested in the issue don't read the threads.
While this is a development issue, an RPM diffing tool is in no way Fedora specific (I hope). Kernel related discussion here seems (to me) concentrated on kernel-on-FC or FC-kernels, luckily we don't have the huge mess that is called lkml here. I think an RPM diffing tool would be most on-topic on rpm-list (out of the pool of existing mailing lists), what'd be on-topic here would be (when it's ready) discussing eventual inclusion in FC, whether or not it should be used for distribution of FC packages, etc...
I haven't seen any such fruitful discussion about this theme since long, and I enjoy the ideas and actual work being done on this. The thread is only a couple mails, it doesn't disturb and could lead to something very useful IMHO.
To get to the topic: There have been some comments on SuSE's way of doing this and why it is not accepted in rpm mainstream at the packaging list, which unfortunatley seems to have died a quite death in May:
http://mail.freestandards.org/pipermail/packaging/2003-March/000214.html
It shows that solutions are crafted within distributions and then presented upstream (and are being rejected, but that should not scare anyone off). It also contains valuable hints as to what kind of solutions rpm could accept upstream.
The rpm-list is also more a user list than a development list. The interesting development "discussions" about rpm can usually be found at bugzilla.redhat.com. Nevertheless posting a summary mail at rpm-list about the current status would not be wrong.