Installation of Tar and development tree rpm packages

[dan]

Craig White wrote:
> Top posting moved to bottom for clarity
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 14:08 -0500, David Curry wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:06:30 +0100, Erik P. Olsen <erik at epo.dk> wrote:
>>
>>>Excuse me for asking a newbie question, but I am a little uneasy about
>>>what to do.
>>>
>>>I am running FC3 which comes with GNU tar version 1.14. I plan to
>>>upgrade it to version 1.15.1 which comes in tar format only.
>>
>>one important question. why do you want to upgrade. if the  newer
>>version of tar has an important feature that you want then you might
>>want to suggest this as an RFE against tar in bugzilla.redhat.com.
>>
>>if you want to upgrade, one way to do it is to check if the
>>development tree has a newer version and install that. post the
>>results
> 
> ----
> 
>>Thx to Erik Olsen and all respondents to his question about
>>installation 
>>of updates application packages currently available only in tar format. 
>>  Very informative and useful.
>>
>>Rahul Sundaram's response (shown below) raised additonal questions I 
>>hope some on the list will address.
>>
>>As I currently understand fedora processes and structure, development 
>>tree are primarily (solely?) oriented toward the latest official core 
>>release (FC3) and the forthcoming official core release (FC4).  Are some 
>>  development tree packages directly useable on up-to-date FC2 and/or 
>>FC1 systems as well?
> 
> ---
> sometimes yes, sometimes no. Sometimes, you only need the source-rpm and
> rebuild it on your system.
> ---

Take a look at the Fedora Legacy Project.  I maintain a number of FC1 
systems, and quite honestly, I just don't want to take them to FC2, FC3, 
or otherwise.  www.fedoralegacy.org for more information.

Thanks
-dant