Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

[Chris Brown]

> On Sunday 08 April 2007 08:31, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > The current thinking seems to be to just ignore them* but this is
> > guaranteed to result in a lot of confusion.
>
> It should be very simple to write a tool that just modifies the internal
> data
> in the rpm to change the dist tag and rename the file. If you wanted to
> get
> fancy, it could even update cvs for the specfile and update the changelog
> section of the rpm as well. It may not be necessary to recompile
> everything
> if that is objectionable.
>
> My personal opinion is that we should rebuild every package at least once
> during every development cycle not only so that the tags are correct, but
> to
> make sure packages don't bit-rot as the tool chain improves. I'd rather
> have
> the churn and correctness than less to download and bit-rot.
>

FWIW, +1. I don't think packages with fc6 tags should be associated in any
way with f7. It will cause confusion. A prime example is my mythtv box which
has now undergone two distro upgrades (flawlessly I might add) from FC4 > F5
> FC6. To get rid of old cruft and in my naivety I simply ran:

$ rpm -qa | grep -i fc5

after upgrading to see what had been left behind and went through the
process of removing and replacing these few packages. I do think a rebuild
during every development cycle is a good idea for the reasons already
mentioned above as well. More so in fact.

Cheers
Chris
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