[packagers] becoming a packager
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Nov 29 17:02:48 CET 2007
J Robinson wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 22, 2007 1:22 PM, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com
> <mailto:dag at wieers.com>> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, J Robinson wrote:
>
> > Yup, rebuilding mediawiki.src.rpm with epel5 enabled succeeded -- it
> > installed ocaml from the epel5 repo in order to build mediawiki.
>
> ocaml is in RPMforge, if you start building packages against EPEL (which
> is by design incompatible with other 3rd party efforts) they are not
> guaranteed to work with RPMforge.
Dag, stop the FUD please, it's not becoming. The incompatibility can at
least currently be described as a 2-way street (and that's being
generous, but hey, since I'm biased, I'll leave it at that).
-- Rex
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