Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Mon Jun 22 07:38:45 UTC 2009



On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:34, Jussi Lehtola  
<jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 09:31 +0200, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:26, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On 06/22/2009 12:54 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>>> Not possible while we allow people to keep making updates to the
>>>> older
>>>> releases.  Those updates quickly become version ( not just release
>>>> even
>>>> ) higher than the static copies on the release medium and repos.
>>>
>>> Is there any proposed solution to this problem? We can't just  
>>> continue
>>> to break upgrade paths and call it the way things are done.
>>>
>> If you have any ideas I'd like to hear them. A super epoch has  
>> already
>> been suggested but that just masks the problem and may cause unwanted
>> downgrades. Any solution either involves severly limiting what kind  
>> of
>> updates can be done or requiring network access during upgrades.
>
>
> Does anaconda currently force installs of core packages such as yum?
> This is quite important if the version in the old distro is newer than
> that on the DVD.
>

No because anaconda has no idea if forcing it would actually result in  
a working system.

--
Jes




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