On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 15:43 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > nirik ran a script that checks for versioning issues in Rawhide > today, > and it found several: > https://pagure.io/releng/issue/11922#comment-893797 > > Some of these followed a pattern, so I figured a reminder was in > order. > In all these cases, a new version was pushed to Rawhide, then > "reverted" > some time later: > > golang-github-nats-io-jwt - bumped to 2.4.1 in July, reverted to > 1.2.2 > in September > golang-google-grpc - bumped to 1.58.0 in September, reverted to > 1.48.0 > in October; no 1.58.0 build ever landed, but the revert left the > %release much lower than before > python-mizani - bumped to 0.10.0 on September 10, reverted to 0.9.3 > on > September 12 > python-pywlroots - bumped to 0.16.6 on November 4, reverted to 0.16.4 > later the same day > > so the reminder is this: you cannot simply "downgrade" RPM package > versions like this. Especially not if the upgraded version ever made > it > into a Rawhide compose. > > If a Rawhide user has your package installed, and got the upgraded > version, they will be marooned on that build forever unless they > manually run `dnf distro-sync`. A `dnf upgrade` will not downgrade > the > package to the build you now consider to be the "current" one.
yes rawhide user should use dnf distro-sync not dnf upgrade https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Versioning/#_rawhide_is_allowed_to_lag_temporarily you may do a new build with lower EVR > If you have to downgrade a package that made it to a Rawhide compose, > you must use an epoch. If the package did not have an epoch before, > make > it `Epoch: 1`. If it had an epoch already, bump it by 1. People tend > not > to like epochs, so *try* not to have to do this. Be really certain > before pushing out version bumps. > > If the "upgraded" build never made it into a compose (as is likely > the > case for python-pywlroots) you're *probably* okay, but it's still > something to be careful about - for instance you might fall into the > trap golang-google-grpc fell into with the %release tag. > > Thanks folks! > -- > Adam Williamson (he/him/his) > Fedora QA > Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @ad...@fosstodon.org > https://www.happyassassin.net > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Sérgio M. B. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
