Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-11-07 Thread H
On 10/28/2017 06:42 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:15:01 -0400 > H wrote: > >> The graphical configuration utility for fcitx (fcitx-configtool) is missing > I don't know anything about Chinese text rendering. > >> - The geany editor is missing the markdown plugin, this however, may

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-11-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/28/2017 01:28 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote: It didn't seem to use to be that case. IMO it makes a lot more sense to wrap distro-specific .spec file changes in conditionals and let the rpmbuild do the right thing than to post and maintain separate versions for Fedora, EPEL, and anything

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-30 Thread vychytraly .
Thank you all very much for explaining this, it is very interesting topic :) On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:27 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 29 October 2017 at 13:40, vychytraly . wrote: > > Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-30 Thread James Hogarth
On 29 October 2017 at 13:40, vychytraly . wrote: > Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora > src.rpms? > > You may find this a useful read: https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/11 ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-29 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:40:56 +0100 vychytraly . wrote: > Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora > src.rpms? The complexity of doing this will vary a lot with what you're trying to compile, but for userland programs like email clients, text editors, games and the

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:40:56 +0100 vychytraly . wrote: > Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora > src.rpms? The complexity of doing this will vary a lot with what you're trying to compile, but for userland programs like email clients, text editors, games and the

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 12:36:33PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > I don't want to tear my whole computer down and upgrade my operating > system every six months, and I don't want to deal with the > bleeding-edge stuff that might or might not work when it affects > something like network connectivity or

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/29/2017 08:40 AM, vychytraly . wrote: > Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora > src.rpms? > Well, I am not Frank, but you download the SRPM (I use wget) and put it into a directory. Then you extract it .. there are many ways to do that .. I do this: rpm

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-29 Thread vychytraly .
Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora src.rpms? On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:15:01 -0400 > H wrote: > > > The graphical configuration utility for fcitx (fcitx-configtool) is > missing > > I don't

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/28/2017 05:42 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:15:01 -0400 > H wrote: > >> The graphical configuration utility for fcitx (fcitx-configtool) is missing > > I don't know anything about Chinese text rendering. > >> - The geany editor is missing the markdown plugin, this

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/28/2017 01:36 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:07:41 -0500 > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> But trying to convert CentOS Linux into Fedora is not only redundant >> (Fedora already exists .. use it) .. a bastardized version of CentOS >> with hundreds of newer manually maintained

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-28 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:15:01 -0400 H wrote: > The graphical configuration utility for fcitx (fcitx-configtool) is missing I don't know anything about Chinese text rendering. > - The geany editor is missing the markdown plugin, this however, may shortly > be resolved. Check on my website. :)

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-28 Thread H
On 10/28/2017 02:07 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 10/28/2017 12:28 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote: >> On 10/27/2017 2:54 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >>> I do that with a number of packages that are either newer or simply >>> not available in the various Centos repos.  In many cases it's as easy >>> as

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-28 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:07:41 -0500 Johnny Hughes wrote: > But trying to convert CentOS Linux into Fedora is not only redundant > (Fedora already exists .. use it) .. a bastardized version of CentOS > with hundreds of newer manually maintained components is not really > CentOS, and Fedora is

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/28/2017 12:28 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote: > On 10/27/2017 2:54 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >> >> I do that with a number of packages that are either newer or simply >> not available in the various Centos repos.  In many cases it's as easy >> as downloading a new tar source file and adding it to the

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-28 Thread Japheth Cleaver
On 10/27/2017 2:54 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I do that with a number of packages that are either newer or simply not available in the various Centos repos. In many cases it's as easy as downloading a new tar source file and adding it to the existing source rpm, doing three seconds of editing on

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/28/2017 11:33 AM, H wrote: > On October 27, 2017 5:54:45 PM EDT, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:32:03 -0400 >> H wrote: >> >>> How do I best encourage maintainers to update the software they are >>> responsible for in various repositories? >> >> If it's

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-28 Thread H
On October 27, 2017 5:54:45 PM EDT, Frank Cox wrote: >On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:32:03 -0400 >H wrote: > >> How do I best encourage maintainers to update the software they are >> responsible for in various repositories? > >If it's something that you need or want and it's not

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-10-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:32:03 -0400 H wrote: > How do I best encourage maintainers to update the software they are > responsible for in various repositories? If it's something that you need or want and it's not available in a repo that you currently use you can compile it yourself. I do that