[Fedora-packaging] How Fedora is updated/built?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sat Aug 1 16:56:00 UTC 2009


On 08/01/2009 11:41 AM, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not a Fedora user, but looking at the repositories I saw that you
> update things like KDE in a regular basis. That's uncommon, distros as
> Ubuntu, Mandriva or openSUSE just release security updates and fixes
> for really important bugs (frightened about the possibility of
> upstream breaking ABI compatibility by error). At the same time I saw
> some packages not updated... so, which exactly is the Fedora updates
> policy?

It's generally left up to the discretion of the package maintainer(s), 
but see also:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Package_update_guidelines

> What I'm most interested in is knowing if a package built against a
> base (not updated) Fedora install is guaranteed to work with an
> updated Fedora system. And, when you release an update to the latest
> version of Amarok, is it built against the original distro/KDE or the
> updated one? If you release an update from KDE 4.2.2 to 4.2.3, a new
> Amarok package is also released (without changes, only rebuilt against
> the new KDE)?

Fedora builds include (stable) updates as well (ie, it built against the 
latest).

-- Rex




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