Fedora 22 Repositories contain Fedora 21 Packages?

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 22 19:45:02 UTC 2015


On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 01:10:21AM +0530, Sumit Bhardwaj wrote:
> Because per my understanding, for any branched release, packages are
> completely rebuilt. Then how did this happen?

Simple: we didn't do a mass rebuild this time around.

> 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?

If and only if they're updated.

> BTW, below is the list of those packages:

List more with `dnf list|grep fc21`. :) There are some 5000 packages
which weren't rebuilt at some point during the cycle. The vast majority
of these are noarch packages.

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Matthew Miller
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