[Buildroot] [PATCH v5 1/1] package/rpm: switch to version 4.12.0.1

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Sep 11 13:54:31 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Fri,  9 Sep 2016 12:37:08 -0400, James Knight wrote:
> The provided switches from the RPM5 implementation to rpm.org's stream.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Knight <james.knight at rockwellcollins.com>

Could you give some details on why the rpm.org version is better than
the rpm5.org version? The motivation to move from a 5.x version to
a 4.x version doesn't look immediately obvious, so some more
details would be good to have.

RPM seems like a weird project, it's widely used, but it's very hard to
understand what is the real upstream for it. This fact was even
discussed on LWN recently: https://lwn.net/Articles/196523/.

Thanks,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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