On 01/13/2016 02:36 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 13.01.2016 um 14:30 schrieb Richard Hughes: >> On 13 January 2016 at 13:13, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> >> wrote: >>> so there is no justification to declare one need to install from scratch >>> just because rpm which works for many years fine changes it's storage >>> format >> >> I don't think anyone said there was a need to reinstall from scratch > > so how do you translate "clearly not forward compatible"?
"forward compatible" means the old version of a program being able to read/process newer version data. The current rpm versions will not be able to read the new database format. Florian -- Red Hat GmbH, http://www.de.redhat.com/ Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Michael Cunningham, Michael O'Neill, Charles Peters -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
