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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
