On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:48:27PM -0800, David Rees wrote: > I see that xz is available for EL-5, but not for EL-4. Would it be > possible to branch xz for EL-4 as well? > > It would be useful to have that utility available there as well. I > did try downloading the el.5 source rpm, but it has a dependency on xz > which keeps me from trying to build it there. > > FWIW, the upstream source did compile OK on an EL-4 machine I have. > Are you a Fedora packager? I'm the EL-5 package maintainer for xz and I'd be happy to have you maintain it in EL-4. I don't have any EL-4 boxes so I'm not too motivated to do so myself but I have absolutely no objection with someone else doing it. PS: The xz source is distributed as both tar.gz and tar.xz. We're using the xz compressed tarball which is why you can't build the rpm directly. For bootstrapping into EL-4, you can first build a release with the tar.gz tarball and then build the next release with tar.xz. -Toshio
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