fedora-legacy-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 2

[John Dalbec]

> Date: Thu,  1 Apr 2004 11:27:29 -0600
> From: Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>
> Subject: Red Hat 8 (and soon 9) support
> To: "fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com" <fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com>
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> With the Red Hat 9 support ending with the end of this new month, I took
> a minute to reflect on the Red Hat 8.0 support in FL.
> 
> Red Hat 8.0 support in Fedora Legacy seems pathetic.  We had a functioning
> apt-get for RH 8, I tested it (and am still using it) and it seems to work.
> It was put on hold for "upcoming changes upstream" and that's the last I
> heard of it.  Why couldn't we release it as it was (assuming it was working,
> which it appears to be) and then release another version when the upstream
> changes came in (can't apt-get update itself)?

I recently posted new packages to the bug report.  I see Panu has packaged cnc6 
now.  Maybe I should rebuild these?  I decided to use (FC release - 1).rh(RHL 
version).(FC release) in the package "release" field to avoid rpmvercmp problems.

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New apt packages are available from http://www.fedoralegacy.org/contrib/apt :

7bfeaee0f0c39742d336fa4d9c6504d61a56c196  \
apt-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.9.rh72.10.legacy.i386.rpm
865542cc0223dd5855354ba7d66d9e575cec40a7  \
apt-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.9.rh72.10.legacy.src.rpm
5d0c501b7deaa3f52de67802b11e1eed8b1262fa  \
apt-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.9.rh73.10.legacy.i386.rpm
6eea40e1f5c08a2040969870d45bcb007a88ea68  \
apt-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.9.rh73.10.legacy.src.rpm
9e91d8139b0d31b3b4b0351842fec5b089444d03  \
apt-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.9.rh80.10.legacy.i386.rpm
cb8a605847a1211c20bd2b6bef1ac8a9ddd99b38  \
apt-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.9.rh80.10.legacy.src.rpm
5be69465e8ed0028db74f93efa3aacd7ae988860  \
apt-devel-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.9.rh72.10.legacy.i386.rpm
bb267301d4ab0c4ef099e393eb8a7cdd9ccc5e48  \
apt-devel-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.9.rh73.10.legacy.i386.rpm
88a8a84b2f0b7ace1f1487108d1ed851cdfc2e31  \
apt-devel-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.9.rh80.10.legacy.i386.rpm

Changelog entry:
* Mon Mar 29 2004 John Dalbec <jpdalbec at ysu.edu> \
0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.9.rh73.10.legacy

- - Merge in changes to mirror-selector from Panu's package
- - Change release format to avoid rpmvercmp problems
- - Use Panu's naming and numbering for epoch-promotion patch
- - Make rpm_ver overridable for mach .src.rpm build
- - Remove unpackaged locale.alias file created by --with-included-gettext

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