wine for fedora core 4?
Oliver Falk
oliver at linux-kernel.at
Fri Jul 15 07:10:53 UTC 2005
On 07/14/2005 06:45 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:42:07 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
>
>
>>On 07/14/2005 04:22 PM, Jan Scott wrote:
>>
>>>I use fedora core 4 and want to install wine. But there are only rpm's
>>>available for fedora core 1 , 2 , 3.
>>>Is it safe to use the rpm corresponding with fedora core 3?
>>
>>Strange this is, there is an empty wine dir in extras devel repo:
>>
>>[oliver at moon extras] ls wine/
>>CVS
>>
>>But for branch FC-3, RHL-9, there are the files (just checked 'em out)
>>and owners.list tells me, who is the owner:
>>
>>[oliver at moon owners]$ grep wine owners.list
>>Fedora Extras|wine|A Windows 16/32 bit emulator|pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
>>
>>So it seems, the branch was made, but the files never copied and so no
>>build was requested yet...
>
>
> "devel" is not a branch, FC-4, FC-3 and older are. If a package is
> discontinued, the first place where to delete the files is "devel".
> "devel" only contained wine because devel is where a module is started
> before it's branched. The version of wine that was imported is from rh9
> times and was branched by accident. Have a look at "cvs log".
Yes, devel is not a branch, you are correct - of course. And you are
correct, I should have watched the cvs log... :-)
Best,
Oliver
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