On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
> Are we ready to consider a brand new RPM version for F11, amidst all this
> mass-rebuild-for-strong-hash chaos and just days to go to development
> freeze?
>
> We just put out first rpm 4.7.0 beta:
>
http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2009-February/000016.html. This
> is nothing like the 4.4.2.x -> 4.6.0 leap-of-faith upgrade last year but
> it's still non-trivial amount of changes to get the kind of memory use and
> performance improvements that 4.7.0 has, which is why it's not just 4.6.1.
>
> The wording of Fedora Feature policy pretty explicitly singles out each
> RPM upgrade to be a Feature... I would like to hear a preliminary opinion on
> it: if everybody is going to be an outright "NO!" then I'm not going
to
> waste my time with writing up a Feature page. If it's "maybe" or
"it
> depends" then ok, will submit as a feature in time for tomorrows FESCo
> meeting.
>
> So, should I bother with a RPM 4.7 feature page or not?
One question:
"# Support for the new XZ (aka LZMA) compression format in package payloads
and sources has been added."
Is this still considered experimental? Are we considering switching to it by
default? Any benchmarks?
We can't this would require another rebuild, so this should be F12 material