binutils

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:07:39PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:46:13PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:37:34PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > there is a newer binutils-2.19 release also...
> > 
> > OK, I'll build this one in Rawhide too ...
> 
> I see that upstream have renamed their tarballs to be confusingly
> similar to the native (GNU) ones ...
> 
> $ ll binutils-2.19*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 rjones rjones 22371782 2008-12-15 22:51 binutils-2.19-src.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 rjones rjones 21576006 2008-10-27 09:53 binutils-2.19.tar.gz
> 
> This will cause us a problem if the names coincide because Fedora's
> file storage system doesn't allow two files of the same name.

Err, yes it does. All files are stored based on their md5sum not their
filename. There's plenty of existing places where we have the same file
with different contents in Fedora package set.

Daniel
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