.fc9 packages and friends in Rawhide

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Feb 16 22:17:15 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 06:42 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> > [adamw at adam ~]$ rpm -qa | grep fc7
> > htmlview-4.0.0-3.fc7.noarch
> > 
> > At a guess, these failed the rebuilds, perhaps?
> 
> Most are likely just packages that haven't been rebuild during the past 
> few devel cycles and hence still have the disstag from the F7, F8, F9, 
> or F10 devel cycle. That's normal, as there is no need to rebuild big 
> data packages without need, as that would force unnecessary downloads 
> for people.

If you actually look at the list, few of them fit the description 'big
data package'. They're normal things like applications, libraries and X
drivers, which really should get rebuilt from cycle to cycle.
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