Heads up for rawhide users: if you missed an update, you're stuck

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> Just a note to rawhide users who don't update every day: if you missed
> the upgrade to rpm-4.6.0-8.fc11, you now cannot read many (and soon
> all) packages in rawhide, including the current version of the rpm
> package.  I believe there was a two day window to do this, so if you
> haven't updated since Tuesday you might be stuck.
>
> To get going again, visit koji and manually download the -8 packages
> for your arch, update them manually, and then let yum update you the
> rest of the way.
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=83804

This is just totally bogus.

Rpm 4.6.0 final, which has been in rawhide since Februare 6th, and 
recently submitted to F10 as update can handle the new packages just fine. 
Only the 4.6.0-rcX versions cant cope.

 	- Panu -