Package EVR problems in Fedora 2013-01-12

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Jan 13 11:14:50 UTC 2013


On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 06:00:58 +0000
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:17:03PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:53:06 +0000
> > "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > When I did the big OCaml codegen fix/update in F18 recently, I
> > > just bumped these package versions in Rawhide, merged the change
> > > back to F18, and rebuilt them only in F18.  The upshot is that
> > > these aren't really a problem now and will fix themselves through
> > > routine updates over time.
> > 
> > Why not build them in rawhide? The codegen fix went in sooner there?
> 
> Correct: the codegen fix was in Rawhide about 2 months before.
> 
> > Note that in the future to avoid this: 
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches
> 
> I was using git merge to keep the F18 and Rawhide histories exactly
> the same.  However now F18 seems to have been / be about to be
> released, I'll switch.
> 
> > Personally, I'd say just rebuild them in rawhide, since people yum
> > upgrading from f18 would hit this and rawhide doesn't mind
> > rebuilds. :) 
> 
> I thought that F18 packages would override Rawhide ones if the F18
> package had a greater NVR?  Anyway, it'll get resolved soon.

Rawhide inherits from F18 if and only if there hasn't been a Rawhide
build since F-18 was branched.

Paul.


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