fc7 packages in fc8 Everything

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Jan 3 21:33:58 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 16:18:33 -0200,
  Martin Marques <martin at marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
> Why is it that there are .fc7 packages in the fc8 Everything repositories?
> 
> I found out installing pygame, but looking at 
> http://mirrors.vexs.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/ 
> (others are the same) I found a lot of fc7 packages.
> 
> Shouldn't they all be fc8?
> 
> BTW, after upgrading Fedora 7 to 8 I have a lot of .fc7 packages 
> installed, and I want to know if it's OK.

It is OK.

This was discussed before. My memory is that they are packages that didn't
need to get rebuilt for f8.

P.S.
It looks like everything is likely to get rebuilt for f9 based on discussion
I have seen on the mailing lists.




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