Fedora 11 Mass Rebuilds

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:44 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:46:27AM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "PM" == Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> writes:
> > 
> > PM> The strong file hashes are just the first messenger that got
> > PM> through, and the message it brings is that it's time for people to
> > PM> wake up from the sleep of last hundred, err, ten years and realize
> > PM> that rpm can and does change.
> > 
> > I think we realize this.  rpm change is generally a good thing.
> > However, it would still be nice to have some way to do this.  I
> > recognize that it may not be completely safe to push rpm updates to
> > supported Fedora releases, but it would be nice to have some basic
> > ideas of how we might go about getting a newer rpm onto, say, an F-9
> > box assuming that we're willing to deal with any weirdness that
> > results.
> 
> How about just having a parallel installable new RPM build for existing
> distros. So mock would explicitly use the rpm-4.6 for creating build
> roots, but the host system can continue using its existing RPM version
> without risk to its operation

Parallel installable rpm would be extremely difficult considering that
mock uses yum and yum uses rpm through rpm-python.

-sv