Re: Xapian packages in rpmforge?

On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Olly Betts wrote:

> I don't know anything about rpmforge (and their website doesn't seem  
> to
> offer a useful high-level view of what they are, while wikipedia
> redirects rpmforge to the middle of the fedora article, which doesn't
> mention rpmforge at all).  I also don't use RPMs myself.

aha - you probably know rpmforge as "Dag's repository".  it's a  
combination of several large third-party RPM repositories, supporting  
RHEL3/4/5.

>> i found the SRPMs in http://xapian.org/RPM/centos5/SRPMS/, so i don't
>> think i'll need any further technical assistance in porting the
>> packages, but i wanted to check in with you first.  thoughts?
>
> There are spec files in the source tarballs, which I think are what  
> the
> RPMs in xapian.org/RPM use.  If they need changes, please do send in
> patches (in each case .spec is actually generated from .spec.in, just
> so that the package name and version update automatically - patches
> against either are OK).

ok, i will.

-steve

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