22 Feb
2007
22 Feb
'07
6:22 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 10:15:09AM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
Well ... the majority of our problems are coming from the fact that upstream did not build everything on the same builder. They grabbed .fc6 stuff as is and used it (not necessarily compiled on their el5 builder). Many items are compiled against different kernel-headers, etc.
Wow! Why did they do that? Anybody knows?
Red Hat seems to have, for a long time, followed a policy of not rebuilding packages which have been through QA unless there is a reason to rebuild them. So, packages which were built against older headers stay that way until there's either a new package release or a problem.
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