Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 10.04.2007 08:23, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> The current thinking seems to be to just ignore them* but this is guaranteed 
>> to result in a lot of confusion. When end users do a distribution upgrade via 
>> yum or Anaconda, some of the packages might not have been updated to the 
>> Fedora 7 version due to incorrect packaging or other issues while the rest 
>> are packages which are deliberated not rebuild to avoid churn. Debugging a 
>> end user system with such a mix of packages is very painful.
> 
> Dist tags considered harmful... :) RHEL 5 suffers from this same 
> syndrome, it has loads of packages tagged "fc6" which I could imagine 
> causing quite a bit of confusion as well.

Yeah, they made it a FAQ already ;-)
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_10269.shtm

CU
thl