On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:48:27PM -0800, David Rees wrote:
> I see that xz is available for EL-5, but not for EL-4. Would it be
> possible to branch xz for EL-4 as well?
>
> It would be useful to have that utility available there as well. I
> did try downloading the el.5 source rpm, but it has a dependency on xz
> which keeps me from trying to build it there.
>
> FWIW, the upstream source did compile OK on an EL-4 machine I have.
Are you a Fedora packager?
Unfortunately, no, I'm not.
I'm the EL-5 package maintainer for xz and I'd
be happy to have you maintain it in EL-4. I don't have any EL-4 boxes so
I'm not too motivated to do so myself but I have absolutely no objection
with someone else doing it.
Well, I was hoping that this branch would be next to no trouble for
you, but otherwise, I'll read the docs to see what it takes to become
a packager. Although with just me having just a handful of machines
still running EL-4 it may be easier to just build from source although
it would give me the opportunity to package other RPMs in the
future...
PS: The xz source is distributed as both tar.gz and tar.xz.
We're using the
xz compressed tarball which is why you can't build the rpm directly. For
bootstrapping into EL-4, you can first build a release with the tar.gz
tarball and then build the next release with tar.xz.
Yes, I figured as much. Thanks for the tip. Sure I can't talk you
into branching xz for EL-4? :-)
Thanks!
Dave