[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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