Bug 2188962

Summary:	f24 backgrounds.fc38 u[grades f24 backgrounds.fc37
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	cornel panceac <cpanceac>
Component:	f24-backgrounds	Assignee:	Luya Tshimbalanga <luya_tfz>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	38	CC:	design-devel, luya_tfz, rhughes
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Description cornel panceac 2023-04-23 19:24:59 UTC

f24-backgrounds-extras-xfce-24.1.2-14.fc38.noarch.rpm is an upgrade to f24-backgrounds-extras-xfce-24.1.2-13.fc37.noarch.rpm .

Since these files are only images, why are they fc38 release specific?
My expectations is that they are the same since fc24.

Imagine having all backgrounds available for previous releases installed. This adds several gigabytes (maybe) of data to be :
- downloaded
- removed from storage
- added to storage.

This is pointless if the data remained the same.
Please clarify if my understanding is correct and what is the reason behind 'upgrading' these packages.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf --releasever=$NEXTVER upgrade f\*
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
files are replaced even if they have not been changed.

Expected Results:  
files are left alone unless they have changed.

Of course ,same rationale may apply to any other file on the file system.

Comment 1 Luya Tshimbalanga 2023-04-23 23:57:50 UTC

It looks like an issue related to the mass rebuild for F38 (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild) as the f24-backgrounds remained unchanged for a long time. Maybe contact Fedora Infrastructure about such changes?

Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-07 16:10:28 UTC

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