Once upon a time, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> said: > I see regularly where new(er) users wonder why they see packages > installed with dist tags from previous versions of Fedora. > > I understand why this occurs but now that I've gotten into building > some of my own packages I started to wonder how it is determined if a > package needs to be rebuilt or not. > > Do we rely on the package maintainer to make a call or is there some > definitive way to test a package? This would be more appropriate on fedora-devel (any follow-up questions should go there). Basically, you rebuild a package when there is a good reason to rebuild it. You've made packaging changes or you pulled in a new upstream version are the main reasons for a package maintainer to do it. Sometimes it'll get rebuilt (or you'll need to submit a rebuild) when dependencies change (such as a shared library soname bump). Some Fedora releases will go through a "mass-rebuild", where every package gets rebuilt. This is only done when there's a good distro-wide reason, such as RPM upgrades that change the package format or gcc upgrades that significantly affect optimization/code security/etc. You should never rebuild just to see the release number and/or distro tag change. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
