%config files and upgrade to F11 - consider noreplace

David Lutterkort lutter at redhat.com
Thu Feb 26 17:52:02 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:51 +0000, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > You told me on IRC that this wasn't realistic because rpm would have to
> > open the file twice.  Care to elaborate so everyone can understand?
> RPM API users set up a callback that is, among other things, used to
> provide the downloaded package file to RPM.  Calling this callback where
> it wasn't called before is an API change, possibly breaking the RPM
> front-ends.

How about computing _both_ an md5 and sha256 hash at the same time when
the rpmdb still has an md5 hash for that file ? 

David





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