Heads up for rawhide users: if you missed an update, you're stuck

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Fri Feb 27 07:38:50 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 00:27 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> 
> >>>>>> "PM" == Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> writes:
> >
> > PM> This is just totally bogus.
> >
> > And yet somehow it matches reality and has helped on several systems.
> > I guess I'll leave the question of why to the experts.  Sorry for
> > helping.
> 
> Apologies, I missed the fact that F11 alpha still had 4.6.0-rcX so 
> upgrading from fresh install of that would fail.
> 
> Maybe we should build rpm itself with md5 checksums for now (just a matter 
> of rebuilding with a spec override for the hash algorithm)?

That would be great. But we will need to do the same for other packages
that are pulled in on the 'yum update rpm' done on the F11 Alpha. Of
course if there are such other packages.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb




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