On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:48:17PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've gone down the route of using the SPEC file to build the latest > release several times - but in most cases its just GIT repository all > the time > > (the main issue with RPMs is they give the idea of stability > and often are ancient....if few users are using the latest > release then certain issues/bugs are never discovered until > some time later - if buggy and RPM then a quick package > update release is painless for the vast majority on packages > - theres no reason why 1.1.x is still the flavour du jour for > distros
Your comments are valid. But if I "backport" (as I call it) a Fedora package to some RHEL release, I also look at the difference with the old RHEL spec file, I look at open bugs, etc. Sometimes this takes some time. Still, the package will not get the "care" original RHEL packages get (although some do not have the quality you would expect) and that's the reason that I try to stick with RHEL packages (and the older package versions) whenever possible. For FreeRADIUS, that I needed for an set of RHEL4 packages, I did use newer packages, as I needed a few things that were just more mature in recent versions. -- -- Jos Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
