Interesting post on future RPM changes

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Oct 7 19:53:46 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:40 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > Hope I'm not pre-empting Seth or anyone here, but I thought it worth
> > pointing out a very interesting blog post on planned future changes to
> > RPM:
> >
> > http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/10/rpm-summit-at-the-opensuse-conference-2009/
> >
> > it lists several changes that were agreed in principle at a conference
> > between several Novell and Red Hat people. There's some stuff in there
> > which looks like it will likely lead to changes in Fedora packaging
> > policies once it's implemented, so if you want to get ahead of the
> > future it's a useful read =)
> 
> Pre-empting me for what? Nothing there is implemented as yet and I suspect 
> it is not going to be implemented tomorrow.

Pre-empting you talking about it is all I meant.

> When it is likely to land in rpm it'll come up. Until then it's just 
> potential.

Understood - as I said I just found it interesting from a 'what's
(possibly) coming down the pipe in future' perspective, that's all.

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