Rebuild for RHEL5 final

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Tue Mar 27 18:13:34 UTC 2007


On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:29:05PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Now that I've thought about it some more I don't like that plan that 
> much anymore, as then it's not possible to differentiate if people have 
> the old or the new package installed. Sure, that shouldn't be many 
> people yet, but nevertheless it could create problems.

The reason for not doing so were that one would fork all specfiles.

> Opinions? Just ignore that? Or simply do a script-build mass rebuild of 
> EPEL5 with increased %release?

I'd say ignore it. The current users of EPEL are on this list.

We'll have also other issues to resolve (like qt4 on EPEL4 > qt4 on
RHEL5, and if we check we'll probably find more) and we need to keep a
rawhide attitude (aka flexibility) otherwise we'll have to start using
epochs before launching.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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