On Wed Oct 01, 2003 at 06:50:42PM -0400, Rob wrote: > > Probably not. But if you, as a contributor, have a cooker > > machine and compile on cooker, how can you possibly know if > > your package, despite having conditional build macros, will > > work with an older distrib if you don't take the time to build > > and test on that old platform? So you *do* need to maintain > > This is why there are a dozen sites out there like mine, where > people who don't use cooker build the contrib packages they need > for their version of the distribution and offer them for other > people in the same boat. I seem to remember some > dissatisfaction on the list about this situation; correct me if > I'm wrong.
Agreed. I run one of them and just a few days ago was essentially told that everything on rpmhelp.net should go in contribs. Not really an option for a variety of reasons already discussed. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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