Disseminating information about F22 containing some F21 packages

[Ankur Sinha]

On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 13:36 -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Since there wasn't a mass rebuild for F22, the F22 repos have some 
> > F21
> > packages, which is perfectly fine. However, I've seen a few people
> > worry about this - the most recent query came up on the devel list.
> > Should we write a short post on the magazine explaining the 
> > situation
> > and allay users' fears? (and twitter and facebook and G+ and so on)
> 
> Why are there fears?
> 
> In some earlier Fedora releases, going back to when it had Core as 
> part of the name even... a single release might have packages that 
> had 2, 3, 4 or maybe 5 release version packages as part of it.  I 
> guess there were just less changes back then or something... but it 
> was rare when all packages had to be rebuilt each release.  In fact 
> rebuilding everything is a fairly recent phenomenon caused by things 
> like changing compression format used by the package manager or major 
> glibc changes... or something unusual like that... or at least that 
> is my layman understanding.
> 
> In any event, the people who might "fear" seeing multiple release 
> version packages for a new release are exactly the people who won't 
> even be looking at package filenames to see the version numbers in 
> there.  I mean... folks download an .iso file, boot it (on a physical 
> machine or VM), do the install... and then use some GUI package 
> manager (like GNOME Software or yumex) to find software... and they 
> don't usually get into the nitty-gritty of filenames or complete 
> package names... or am I mistaken?
> 
> So it came up on the devel list... devel's should know better I would 
> think... but I guess that just goes to show that everyone on a list 
> isn't necessarily hardcore.  Another example would be me on this list 
> while mostly being a passive observer.
> 
> In any event, it might be an interesting history lesson of a story 
> for the Fedora Magazine site but I doubt there are more than a small 
> handful of fearful people. :)
> 
> TYL,

Well, the entire point is that *we* know, but new users may not :)

Not fears, but maybe confusion or just people wondering.
-- 
Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha

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