RPMs forward compatibility between releases

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Frank Cox wrote, at 03/28/2009 01:24 PM +9:00:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:18:54 +0100
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
>> But even that will not work with RPMs from Fedora 11 or (in the future)
>> newer on Fedora 9 or older. Even the SRPMs have the new checksum format
>> (SHA256 instead of MD5) which requires at least Fedora 10 with updates to
>> interpret. (It's possible to manually unpack the SRPM using file-roller or
>> Krusader though, which bypasses the checksum validations.)
> 
> I'm hoping that I will continue to be able to compile pdftk on new Fedora
> releases.  That's one piece of software that I would really hate to not have
> available.
> 

Just noting that while pdftk is not available on F-9, now pdftk is available
on F-10/11.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2742

Regards,
Mamoru