Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 14:32:31 UTC 2004


On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:37:32 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> In fact changing this inside RPM would be a small disaster. It would
> require all tools that handle RPMs to be changed, it would require a
> change to the SRPMs format (possibly breaking compatibility), it would not
> be backported and therefor only considerable in 4 years when older dists
> phase out, and most likely also need a SPEC file change that becomes
> incompatible with previous RPM releases.

I'm all for aggressive changes.. even in the package manager... this
is a testbed distro after all.

> While in fact the current implementation has no drawbacks, is used by Red
> Hat since Red Hat 6.x (remember the kernels that have 6.x or 6x added) and
> is generally accepted.

Yes... a generally accepted hack... i completely agree.

-jef




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