On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 08:07 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > But RHEL 5 is still the latest RedHat production release. It's gotten > quite old, I admit, and am eagerly awaiting RHEL 6. But we've seen > similar nuttiness with Subversion on both RHEL 5 and especially on > RHEL 4. If you want people in business/production environments to use > a tool, then it helps if it will compile there.
You are telling this to me? :-) You'd rather explain this to VLC developers. > In fact, the Subversion .spec file has some useful configuration > differences for RHEL 4 and RHEL 5. Perhaps the VLC .spec could do > something differently for RHEL 5? No. Unless you want a command-line interface only. Which is probably worse than 0.9.9a. > One thinig people do is build a separate, slightly different named > package. For example, "gcc-4.x" is released in parallel with gcc-3.x > with the name "gcc4-4.x". It is impossible to make a parallel-installable version of qt4. At least not without help from Redhat. -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev _______________________________________________ suggest mailing list suggest@lists.rpmforge.net http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/suggest
