On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Di, den 29.06.2004 schrieb Gilbert Sebenste um 6:24:
Whathas happened, apparently, is that they put out new updates...that are the old programs. So, they put out an earlier version back on the update site, so yum doesn't catch it. On the Fedora main site they have just the old version on there, not the new buggy version. But on mirror sites, they have *both* new (buggy) and old (good). That's what is causing the problem.
Hi Gilbert,
I am sorry but I can't really follow you. What I see on the main Redhat server is following:
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.updates/tcl-8.3.5-96.1.i386.rpm
So that is the updates directory for FC1 with the new package version -96. You say that package is buggy? There is no old tcl/tk package in updates. -93 is the original version. Went to
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
and there is the same situation. I am feeling really puzzled by your posting. What are you speaking about? When update packages come out, the old packages are not deleted. They stay in the repository with the packages of the Fedora which was originally shipped. The installer tools like yum, up2date and apt - but mainly it is rpm itself - are recognizing that there is a new package by the higher version number (and/or epoch) and choose the update package.
Is this worth a bugzilla, or will it go away if the mirrors start from "scratch" somehow when they sync up?
Of course it is a bugzilla if you can judge that the new bugfixing tcl/tk packages version 8.3.5-96 do bad things / are buggy themselves. Can you explain your critics in short form?
You say the yesterday announced update packages "Fedora Core 1 Update: tcltk-8.3.5-96.0.1" are no real good updates but itself broken?
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-June/msg00048.html
<check the primary download site http://download.fedora.redhat.com>
tcl-8.3.5-96.0.1 is now the fixed update (which should replace) tcl-8.3.5-96.1 which has compatibility issues with expect/fc2 upgrade.
Update with step-down version number is bad - and is not picked up by automated tools such as yum/up2date (if the update tcl-8.3.5-96.1 was already installed).
The following mirror site doesn't have tcl-8.3.5-96.1 any more. ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/1/i386
Satish
