On 2011-03-06 12:42:12 (+0100), Cristian Morales Vega <[email protected]> wrote: > Essentials prj metadata includes things like > <repository name="openSUSE_11.3"> > <path repository="standard" project="openSUSE.org:openSUSE:11.3:Update"/> > <arch>x86_64</arch> > <arch>i586</arch> > </repository> > > It's this on purpose? Usually people builds against openSUSE:11.3 > instead of openSUSE:11.3:Update since updates are supposed to be > binary compatible. Notice 11.3 released a glibc security update...
Yes, it's on purpose and yeah, we're aware that a glibc update will hurt us for a day. > that would mean a rebuild of everything without any change. > Still, it's true that there exists some cases where the original > version was so broken that anything build against it would be also > broken and the :Update version was needed. Yep, that happens here and then too. Building against :Update is the safer approach. If, in a couple of weeks or months, it turns out that we have frequent full rebuilds because of that, we can still change it and go back to s/:Update//; cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf
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