Package EVR problems in FC+FE 2006-12-02

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Axel Thimm schrieb:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:00:16AM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>> Axel.Thimm AT ATrpms.net:
>>>    smart
>>>      FE4 > FE7 (0:0.42-40.fc4 > 0:0.42-39.fc6)
>>>      FE5 > FE7 (0:0.42-40.fc5 > 0:0.42-39.fc6)
>>>      FE6 > FE7 (0:0.42-40.fc6 > 0:0.42-39.fc6)
>> I wonder if it would be reasonable to suppress rawhide in this report
>> until we get closer to test time.  Since rawhide occasionally doesn't
>> build, and maintainers often concentrate on released versions when
>> fixing important bugs or pushing security fixes, the information often
>> isn't pertinent.
> FWIW the smart build fails on KDE not liking the newest autoconf:
> [...]

Why can't you simply run autofoo on a FC-6 machine, create a patch,
bzip2 it and import it to the look aside cache and then use it as %patch
from the spec file? That what several people recommend on different
fedora-lists in the past, as they say "it's bad to run autofoo in a spec
file".

CU
thl