Why was tcl-devel in unsupported?
Short Story
RedHat didn't include most of their '-devel' rpm's at all in RHEL3.  We 
got the rpm's when we recompiled the code, and up through S.L. 3.0.2 we 
put them in a separate directory called unsupported.
In S.L. 3.0.3 we merged this directory into the main rpm directory.

Long Story
See above, plus this.
RedHat didn't like getting bug reports on their '-devel' rpm's, so they 
basically just took them out.
We put them in an accessable area for hopefully obvious reason's.  We, 
and most others developing on S.L., needed those rpm's.
Me mergerd the directories in S.L. 3.0.3 because it was a little silly 
having them in a separate place.
One final note is that RedHat has finally seen the light and put 90% of 
those rpm's into their release, in either Update 3 or 4.

Troy

Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:
> Hi Jean-Michel,
> 
> No don't know why it was in `notsupported'.  I'd guess it is how RH
> initially organised RHEL 3 - something to do with licencing I believe,
> but the folks at Fermi may know something different.  
> 
> Martin. 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jean-Michel Barbet 
>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
>>Sent: 09 February 2005 09:11
>>To: Bly, MJ (Martin)
>>Cc: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: TCL devel SL302
>>
>>
>>Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:
>>
>>>Jean-Michel,
>>>
>>>Our our local mirror of Fermi, tcl.h is in tcl-devel which is:
>>>
>>>.../SL/3.0.2/i386/notsupported/RPMS/tcl-devel-8.3.5-92.i386.rpm
>>>
>>>So you should be able to locate it on the Fermi system in the
>>>`notsupported' bit.
>>
>>Works. Thanks very much Martin.
>>
>>By the way, do you know why it is in "unsupported" ?
>>
>>Jean-Michel.
>>
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