On 5/22/06, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Vikas Upadhyay wrote:
> >
> > I have to port EAL3 test suite (available from ltp.sourceforge.net )
> meant
> > for RHEL 3 to RHEL 4. In the test suite, there is a directory which
> tests
> > the underlying audit system. Moving from RHEL 3 to RHEL 4, Redhat has
> > changed the audit system. Now no more LAuS. I have version 1.0.14 of
> audit
> > system installed and looking at the mailing list archives of audit
> system, a
> > lot of capabilities have been added in the newer versions.
> > So, I thought of using newer version of audit system.
>
> dont you think its a bit extreme to basically retool the entire distro
> from glibc onwards in order to achieve something of this nature ? why
> not find someone who knows the audit subsystems and work the issue at
> that level ?
>
> >
> > Well, don't have any idea about Rawhide. Searching (Googling ) for it
> points
> > to Fedora. Please correct me if I am wrong. The project is meant for
> RHEL 4
> > only, so no chance of moving to Fedora/Rawhide.
> > Is there any generic way of resolving dependency ?
> >
>
> rawhide is the development version of Redhat's packages - its also known
> as Fedora-Development ( currently target is FC6 ) - that will have the
> latest / greatest packages for most everything.
>
> If you intend to develop something for RHEL4 - you goal should be to try
> and work within the framework of whats being offered within RHEL4. There
> is a reason why versions are locked.... basically changing a massive
> number of packages ( an initial look at my end indicates 100+ ) to
> satisfy depends on your package isnt going to be well received by
> anyone, specially users who care about stability.
>
>
Thanks Karan,
I got what you mean.
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