On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:40:34AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Rechecking my test environment, 1.6.16 builds well enough on RHEL
> 5/CentOS 5 with just the version change. RHEL 6 is a *disaster*,
> partly due swig integration. (RHEL 6 finally has a recent enough swig
> and sqlite not to need the separate tarballs, but that code needs
> graceful management.)
>
> The internal ".spec" structure in
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/packages/rpm/ is also
> *very* dangerous. It replaces the user's own .rpmmacros, without
> warning and without making a backup. This is hideous behavior. I'll
> send along some patches for that ASAP.
I agree that's hideous.
Patches to the packages are welcome.
The last serious update seems to have been in 2009.
But have you looked at red hat's source RPMs? If RPMforge packages could
be based on those, we might as well delete our own packages/rpm/ directory.
Build scripts for most Subversion packages these days are maintained elsewhere.
Received on 2011-03-18 15:51:06 CET