On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 06:19:06PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:08:10PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On 04/19/2011 05:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Actually it looks like I was even lazier than that and just built it
> > from source. I seem to be running 2.32.52. I just needed whatever
> > version would interoperate with my Mandriva machines.
>
> Good news is current unison builds just fine with the existing SPEC with
> trivial updates.
>
> Can somebody recommend an existing package to use as an example that
> maintains multiple versions of a source tree to build multiple versions
> of the main binary?
>
Don't do that. It's not a good path to take. When you have multiple binary
rpms built from a single source rpm, anytime there's a change to any of the
included sources all of the binary rpms end up being updated. This is not
desirable for end users. Yes, maintaining separate source and binary
packages is more work for the packager but it is nicer for the end user.
The binary RPMs are small, updates are very infrequent (< 1/yr), and
Unison is not a very widely used package. Really this is a non-issue,
compared to the really mighty packager/Fedora infrastructure burden
you propose as the alternative.
Rich.
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