Planning the Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild
Mamoru Tasaka
mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Mon Feb 23 18:17:17 UTC 2009
Jon Masters wrote, at 02/24/2009 02:55 AM +9:00:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 11:53 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/StrongerHashes
>> All rpms rebuilt for sha256 rpm hashes
>
> This is done and redhat-rpm-config is rebuilding.
>
> However, I don't think enough consideration was given to the upgrade
> path. As I raise on IRC, due to this change rpm will now consider *all*
> local config files to have been changed by the user and use .rpmnew
> files at upgrade time. I don't think enough consideration has been given
> to this, to the impact upon upgrade, or to the need to ensure that
> everyone doing an upgrade is aware of this.
>
A question for this change:
How does this change affect the file marked as %verify(not size md5 mtime)?
Should I change the string "md5" to something else? And how will this
file be treated with upgrade?
Regards,
Mamoru
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