rpmforge and {enterprise, } Extras (Was Re: Initial Proposal for doing Enterprise Extras=

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 4, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

>>>> - rpmforge builds new packages often for several distributions  
>>>> including
>>> those that are in "Maintenance state" (FC3, FC4 currently); Fedora
>>> Extras is more conservative here
>>
>> What about RHEL2.1 and RHEL3 ? People need a decent subversion for  
>> those.
>> If you apply your current rules to the release of RHEL2.1 or RHEL3  
>> you'd
>> be providing subversion 0.19 ad 0.90. Very stable and pretty  
>> useless !
>
> Well, those people are still on RHEL 2.1 and RHEL3 for some reasons.
> Probably because kernel, gnome, X, and several other stuff is working
> quite well for them. So if they don't want newer versions of that  
> stuff
> -- why should they want a new subversion?

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...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com


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