On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 14:36, Gianluca Sforna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I am trying to build a package for EPEL 5 but failing because it > needs a newer flex than it's available on base system. > > Unfortunately, it seems RH will not update the package[1] because it's > not 100% compatible with the current one, which is also probably the > reason why in Fedora we have both flex (at 2.5.35) and compat-flex (at > 2.5.4a). > > How do you feel about adding the newer flex package in epel?
It would require someone to package it up as non-conflicting and non-replacing. If that can be done then I don't think it would cause a problem. > Cheers > > G. > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554210 > > -- > Gianluca Sforna > > http://morefedora.blogspot.com > http://identi.ca/giallu - http://twitter.com/giallu > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
