[users] Old freshrpm packages in rpmforge?

[Matt Hyclak]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:26:41PM -0500, Matt Hyclak enlightened us:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:10:48PM -0500, Dave Alden enlightened us:
> >   I went looking for the 'nvidia-x11-drv' package in rpmforge, and found an
> > older version from the freshrpms repository.  I understand that rpmforge
> > is supposed to be a merging, but I'm confused as to why it would have
> > older versions (as opposed to either having the current one or none at all)?
> > ...thnx,
> > ...dave
> 
> If it's for EL4, for some reason that was excluded from the RPMForge builds.
> I rebuilt 100.14.19 just fine and one of my users is using it currently with
> an 8500 something or other. If you want my packages, just yell. Or get off
> your lazy butt and make Jeff do it ;-)
> 

Just to follow up on this, I'm not entirely familiar with the
meta-information rpmforge uses in the spec files, but I'm guessing that

# $Id$
# Authority: matthias
# Dist: nodist
# ExclusiveDist: fc6 el5 fc7

means that the build system will not build this RPM for EL4. 


I used this spec file, updated to 100.14.19, and it rebuilt cleanly and
works on i386 EL4. Is there a reason EL4 was excluded? Matthias?

Matt

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