On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Robert Scheck <rob...@fedoraproject.org>wrote:
> Hallo Dave, > > On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Dave Johansen wrote: > > I just noticed that the boost141 package had been previously available in > > Fedora, but it has since been removed ( > > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5291 ). I'm not familiar with > the > > recent changes in Boost, but is the API stable enough to support a > package > > to build on EL 5/6 and Fedora? > > the boost141 was more by accident in Fedora. I needed the package for > Zarafa in Fedora EPEL 4 and 5. The package is a rebuild of boost from > RHEL 6 with adaptions to make it installable in parallel with the old > boost versions that RHEL 4 and 5 ship. > > My personal goal is to keep the boost141 package in sync with RHEL 6 > one - so there should be no ABI/API changes in Fedora EPEL 5 for this > package ever. > > I am also not following up this boost141 or boost148 or whatever topic > for Fedora as Zarafa (the package why I needed this) is able to handle > more recent boost versions now - however nothing older than boost141. > It seems that having the same version available in both EL 5 and 6 probably satisfies the need, and Fedora is ok with just having the latest version, so I guess it makes sense to not have boost141 in Fedora. Thanks, Dave
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