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Re: looking for a distro using rpm5 !

From: Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com>
Date: Mon 17 Dec 2007 - 20:36:26 CET
Message-Id: <FB895154-AD96-4093-B2F7-4785C9A07A03@mac.com>

On Dec 17, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Olivier Thauvin wrote:

> Since today, Mandriva is using rpm.org.
>

C'est dommage.

> So to continue to fully test and work on rpm5.org, I am looking for a
> distribution which do plan to use rpm5.
>
> This surelly mean I'll contribute to it if I find some rpm missing  
> to me.
> (Notice I am a mandriva contributer already, I maintain lot of perl  
> packages,
> rsync, postgresql, some rpm apps, and a lot of others stuff).
>
> So, what distribution do you have to suggest to me ? Feel free to  
> promote your
> own distro ! :)
>

rpm-5.0 (and rpm-4.5) "works" fine for me on Fedora 7.9725, likely  
retrofits on most any rpm based
distro once you understand the few changes, like no rpmrc, and parent  
dir
dependencies.

73 de Jeff
Received on Mon Dec 17 20:40:17 2007
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