I would not mind doing that if that is the right thing to do.

Perhaps I had misunderstood the meaning of the markers like "el" or
"sl" in the version.  I had thought that it was supposed to indicate
the version of linux that the rpm is compatible with.  When I make
RPMs for Fedora 8, I put the dist as f8.  Or for SL 5, I put sl5.

I think that a marker "sl5" is useful information for users.  So you
are making me think the dist marker for  me should be something like
"sl5pj" so people know it is for SL 5 and from me .
??

pj




On Dec 5, 2007 11:29 AM, Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 5, 2007 9:09 AM, Paul Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > You may recall I installed SL5 last month and asked here about
> > additional RPMS or updates.  Basically, my vision is that I want my
> > systems to stay on the slow, conservative track for the kernel and
> > glibc and foundation libraries like tcl/tk, but I want up-to-date
> > versions of programs like
> >
> > R
> > firefox
> > thunderbird
> > unison
> > tetex (or possibly TexLive)
> > lyx
> > texmaker
> > Emacs
> > Emacs-ess
> > Swarm (agent-based simulation library)
> > Nvidia proprietary driver (I prefer the way livna packages this, so
> > I've followed their strategy)
> > gambit (a game theory modeling tool)
> > ggobi (a data exploration tool)
> >
> > I want these things to stay up to date because I dual boot a system
> > with Fedora 8 and I don't want to see the huge drop off in
> > functionality when I go from F8 to SL5.  If you don't upgrade to
> > R-2.6, you can't install many of the available packages in CRAN.
> > That's a big problem here.
> >
> > I'm taking the SRPMs from Fedora 8 and making necessary changes to
> > build against libraries in SL5.
> >
> > I've created a repository.  You are free to use these if you want,
> > just let me know if things don't work for you and I'll fix.
>
> It is so generous of you to offer all these packages for others to
> use.  There is one thing I am wondering about, and that is use of
> %dist.  It would be helpful if we can identify the source of a repo
> like we do with the .rf or .at tag.  Would this be an option with your
> repo?
>
> Thanks for your consideration,
>
> Akemi
>



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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas