> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Victory - built subversion from RH9 source rpm!
> From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva@sewingwitch.com>
> Date: Fri, February 11, 2005 12:40 pm
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
>
> --On Friday, February 11, 2005 1:26 PM -0500 Christopher Ness
> <chris@nesser.org> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps it was caused by the switch from RH9 to the FC line (2.6 kernel,
> > restructuring of the file system ie. /media, etc), but more likely by
> > the discontinuation of support (new packages) for that version of the
> > distribution.
>
> RH9 got EOL'd so it won't get any further vendor support. Other than that,
> you can usually build Fedora packages on it. And volunteers are free to
> make those packages available to others. There just don't seem to be any
> such volunteers.
>
There are indeed such volunteers. See
http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/
This is linked to from the subversion website.
> The problems in this thread would have been encountered on any OS, not just
> RH9.
>
The larger issue, which no one wants to discuss, in spite of my several
attempts to raise it, is whether the developer unit-test suite is an
appropriate test suite for inclusion by default in source-build
packages.
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Received on Fri Feb 11 22:45:06 2005