Re: Disseminating information about F22 containing some F21 packages

[Ryan Lerch]

On 05/24/2015 06:15 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>  On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 13:36 -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Since there wasn't a mass rebuild for F22, the F22 repos have some
> >> F21
> >> packages, which is perfectly fine. However, I've seen a few people
> >> worry about this - the most recent query came up on the devel list.
> >> Should we write a short post on the magazine explaining the
> >> situation
> >> and allay users' fears? (and twitter and facebook and G+ and so on)
> > Why are there fears?
> >
> > In some earlier Fedora releases, going back to when it had Core as
> > part of the name even... a single release might have packages that
> > had 2, 3, 4 or maybe 5 release version packages as part of it.  I
> > guess there were just less changes back then or something... but it
> > was rare when all packages had to be rebuilt each release.  In fact
> > rebuilding everything is a fairly recent phenomenon caused by things
> > like changing compression format used by the package manager or major
> > glibc changes... or something unusual like that... or at least that
> > is my layman understanding.
> >
> > In any event, the people who might "fear" seeing multiple release
> > version packages for a new release are exactly the people who won't
> > even be looking at package filenames to see the version numbers in
> > there.  I mean... folks download an .iso file, boot it (on a physical
> > machine or VM), do the install... and then use some GUI package
> > manager (like GNOME Software or yumex) to find software... and they
> > don't usually get into the nitty-gritty of filenames or complete
> > package names... or am I mistaken?
> >
> > So it came up on the devel list... devel's should know better I would
> > think... but I guess that just goes to show that everyone on a list
> > isn't necessarily hardcore.  Another example would be me on this list
> > while mostly being a passive observer.
> >
> > In any event, it might be an interesting history lesson of a story
> > for the Fedora Magazine site but I doubt there are more than a small
> > handful of fearful people. :)
> >
> > TYL,
>  Well, the entire point is that *we* know, but new users may not :)
>
>  Not fears, but maybe confusion or just people wondering.
>
>  
I think this would be a great post!

feel free to move it to the draft status in the magazine and write away!

--ryanlerch