Re: rpm support for 7.4 and beyond

On Thursday 13 November 2003 12:09 am, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 23:44, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > My hands are somewhat tied at the present to only supporting what I
> > actively run. That is currently RHL 8.0 and Fedora Core 1. (not 1.0,
> > incidentally; there is no minor version).

> Have you tried mach? http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/mach/

> I know it is used successfully by several 3rd party rpm packaging sites
> such as freshrpms.net. Also, it's very easy to setup.

Yes, I am familiar with mach.

It's not for lack of hardware, or even disk space. It is simply that I cannot
in a clear conscience support distributions I don't actively run (I forgot
one distribution I actively run, and that's Aurora SPARC Linux (currently at
1.0, which is roughly equivalent to Red Hat Linux 7.3)).

So even if I did have a box running, say, RHL 7.2, for the express purpose of
building RPMs, I would be uncomfortable supporting this since I no longer use
RHL 7.2 actively.

I had in the past thought I would do so, but then people expected more than I
could deliver. And so the current situation is that people who actively use
older dists build it and support it for those dists.
--
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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