8.0 packages to QA

[Jon Peatfield]

I did try to volunteer to build/test packages for RH8 last year but
no-one replied to my request for further information on the procedures
for arranging for packages to be uploaded/tested.

Occasionally since then I've looked at the fl download site and again
seen the lack of packages (even for RH73 or 9 -- which I don't use so
don't really care about).

I ended up building all the relevant ones myself (assuming that no-one
else was interested).  Before the RH9 EOL most of those packages (or a
simple rebuild from the SRPM) were enough, since then I've picked
SRPMs from RHEL-AS3, fedora-core and occasionally just applied the
relevant patch to the last RH8 SRPM.

Since I'm doing this just for the ~190 RH8 machines I look after I'm
only building updates (mostly the security ones) for packages we
actually install (so some are bound to be missing).

Since the RH8 EOL, I have used updates for the followng:

# From RH9 updates needing no rebuild
tcpdump-3.7.2-7.9.1
startup-notification-0.5-1
gaim-0.75-0.9.0
netpbm-9.24-10.90.1
gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-6.1.0
sysstat-4.0.7-4.rhl9.1
mozilla-1.4.2-0.9.0
cvs-1.11.2-17
lha-1.14i-9.1
mc-4.6.0-14.9
libpng-1.2.2-20
libpng10-1.0.13-11

# from RH9 rebuild SRPM (with minor changes)
mutt-1.4.1-3.3.D80
XFree86-4.3.0-1.80.55.D
fontconfig-2.1-9
freetype-2.1.3-6
ttmkfdir-3.0.9-1
kernel-2.4.20-30.8.JSP
libxml2-2.5.4-3.rh8
kernel-2.4.20-31.8.JSP
xchat-1.8.11-8
utempter-0.5.5-2.RHL8.0.JSP

# from RHEL-AS3 SRPM
cvs-1.11.2-22JSP
rsync-2.5.7-4.80.JSP1

# Applied patch to last RH8 update
kdelibs-3.0.5a-5.80.1JSP
openssl-0.9.6b-36.8.JSP
kdelibs-3.0.5a-6.80.1JSP

# rebuild from fedora-core version (none are security related)
octave-2.1.57-1.JSP
aspell-0.50.5-1.JSP
gnome-spell-0.4.1-5.JSP

I didn't bother with openoffice, apache, ftpd, flim etc since we don't
use the RH packages version (for complex reasons), so I just arranged
to patch the copy we installed ourselves.

Next month we might actually have time to start thinking of what we
should switch our desktop machines to next...

 -- Jon