Fedora 22 Repositories contain Fedora 21 Packages?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 22 19:43:41 UTC 2015


On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Sumit Bhardwaj
<sumitkbhardwaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a fresh installation of Fedora 22 RC1 with all the extra stuff I
> needed installed. Today I was going through the list of packages installed
> on my system and was a little bit surprised to find some packages ending in
> "fc21" in their names. Now, for an upgraded system that might happen, but on
> a clean install, why I am getting FC21 packages?
>
> Because per my understanding, for any branched release, packages are
> completely rebuilt. Then how did this happen?

This is not always the case.  There was no mass rebuild for Fedora 22.

> More to the point, do I have to care about or do something about these? Will
> these be auto upgraded later with their FC22 counterparts?

No, you don't have to care about them.  They will be upgraded if and
when they are upgraded and built as updates for f22.

josh


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