Fedora (Linux) is Destroying it self

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Well, it had worked for ages.
>
> "it had worked" != sane
> "it had worked" != compliant to guidelines
> "it had worked" != it's not broken
>
> Many things happen to "work", but are still completely broken.

>From rpm POV it's perfectly legal for any number of packages to share 
identical files, and that still works. What doesn't work is sharing files 
between packages using different file hash algorithm, so if you need to 
share across Centos >= 3 <-> Fedora >= 11 you need to build the package 
for lowest common denominator, meaning md5 file hashes. Fedora 11 changes 
the default algorithm from md5 to sha256 in redhat-rpm-config, producing 
packages that are incompatible with rpm < 4.6.0 but specs and macro 
configuration can override that.

Whether it's against Fedora guidelines is another question, but since this 
was about a package from a 3rd party repository...

 	- Panu -