On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:47 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
On 20 Jun 2008, at 07:47, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> The exact timing for the new rpm release is not clear yet, but there
> would be a need of mass rebuild to fully take advantage of the new
> compression.
I guess we also need to stage things appropriately so that those
updating to Fedora x (where x is the LZMA supported distro) by using
on-line update (yeah I know its not supported as such but its always
worked well in the past), are able to get the initial upgrade
requirements onto their box (which I guess would be rpm, yum & fedora-
release) without being stymied by an rpm for those packages being
compressed with LZMA when their own rpm cannot cope with it...
This is why upgrades via anaconda[1] are the recommended method. The
anaconda environment then has the newer bits and things can Just Work
(tm) without requiring weird jumping through hoops
Jeremy
[1] With or without preupgrade