xmlrpc-c for EPEL

[Orion Poplawski]

Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> writes:
> 
>>   I'm trying to get cmake into EPEL but it requires xmlrpc-c.  Would
>> you be able to maintain it for EPEL, or would you like me (or someone
>> else) to maintain it?
> 
> I did not looked into EPEL yet and do not know its requirements and
> processes.
> 

You can check out the EPEL pages in the wiki for more info.  The main 
differences are layed out here: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies

Mainly that you don't upgrade packages in a release without good reason 
(security fixes) and you don't break compatibility.  Otherwise you cat 
request EPEL branches (EL-4, EL-5) in the normal way or you can ask 
Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> to do all of your packages wholesale if 
you want.

> Nevertheless, there will be a chicken-egg problem: xmlrpc-c buildrequires
> cmake and cmake buildrequires xmlrpc-c.

I'm CCing the epel list for how to get around this.

Some notes:

- cmake can be built with its own copy of xmlrpc-c.  Could do this to 
get it in then shift to system version.

- Perhaps we could could grab older versions of the two packages from a 
compatible FE release and then rebuild?

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