Ready for new RPM version?

Shawn Starr sstarr at platform.com
Thu Feb 26 18:43:40 UTC 2009


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> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Panu
> Matilainen
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:36 PM
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Ready for new RPM version?
> 
> 
> 
> Are we ready to consider a brand new RPM version for F11, 
> amidst all this
> mass-rebuild-for-strong-hash chaos and just days to go to development 
> freeze?
> 
> We just put out first rpm 4.7.0 beta: 
> http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2009-February/0000
16.html. 
>This is nothing like the 4.4.2.x -> 4.6.0 leap-of-faith upgrade last year 
>but it's still non-trivial amount of changes to get the kind of memory use 
>and performance improvements that 4.7.0 has, which is why it's not just 
>4.6.1.

Do you have RPM/.spec available? I'd like to use it regardless if Fedora 11 has it or not.

Thanks, 
Shawn.




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