On 14-Oct-98 Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> People seem to be using the diald-config-0.1 package a lot, probably because
> it was released as an i386 rpm before rpm supported "noarch" as an
> architecture. It is very old. The latest version is at least 1.2.1.
>
> I think the old version is still on the redhat site with the i386 stuff, and
> that is the problem. The new version is on the redhat site in the noarch
> directories.
Hmmm. I guess I did not carefully inspect the diald-0.16.5-201.src.rpm that I
patched up to diald-0.16.5a-1.src.rpm by restoring the dctrl patch
to make dctrl work.
It does mention you (Karl Pinc), and does produce a diald-config rpms as
well as a diald rpm. I suppose it is a "merge" of your (Karl)'s work
on configuration with Eric Schenk's stuff.
From this point of view, I guess the diald rpm
ought to be "pure eric" and diald-config should be "pure Karl".
"diald-0.16.5-201" was been the only diald rpm for RedHat 5.x available
for many months. The way RedHat contrib site works is that only the
"newest" rpm as determined by version (here 0.16.5) and release (here 201)
survives, the older ones get archived in /dev/null :( .
Since 0.16.5a > 0.16.5, 0.16.5a rpms will supersede all 0.16.5 ones.
Its certainly not good if the diald-config-0.16.5a-1 stuff is in fact
obsoleted by more recent releases of Karl's config work as a seperate
"noarch" rpm. (a problem with "noarch is that people looking for
diald and diald-config rpms will not find them in the same directory)
Karl, maybe you could sort out a new release (say diald-0.16.5a-2)that
updates your scripts. I think the 0.16-5a numbering scheme is consistent,
as it implies that the patch level is essentially 5, but IS different.
Maybe diald and diald-config should have seperate source rpms?
The dctrl stuff is added as a second patch, applied after the standard
patch 5.
regards
duncan
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