<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 4, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 30.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- rpmforge builds new packages often for several distributions including</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">those that are in "Maintenance state" (FC3, FC4 currently); Fedora</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Extras is more conservative here</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">What about RHEL2.1 and RHEL3 ? People need a decent subversion for those.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">If you apply your current rules to the release of RHEL2.1 or RHEL3 you'd<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">be providing subversion 0.19 ad 0.90. Very stable and pretty useless !</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Well, those people are still on RHEL 2.1 and RHEL3 for some reasons.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Probably because kernel, gnome, X, and several other stuff is working</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">quite well for them. So if they don't want newer versions of that stuff</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-- why should they want a new subversion?</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>That is a perfectly valid example. I know of folks running mission-critical RHEL3 (or older) servers that they'd like to add something modern, like an up-to-date subversion server to...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Jarod Wilson</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:jwilson@redhat.com">jwilson@redhat.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>