Updating git in EPEL-5 to 1.8.2.1

[Todd Zullinger]

This is a heads up and a request for testing of git-1.8.2.1 on el5 (if 
anyone here is still using git from EPEL there).

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/git-1.8.2.1-1.el5

This update obsoletes an ealier 1.8.1.4 update that didn't get 
announced here.  I don't believe there are any changes from the 
current 1.7.4.1 release that would make this unacceptable for EPEL, 
but I could always be wrong.

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EPEL Updating git in -5 to 1.8.2.1

[Thomas Moschny]

Hi Todd,

we are missing /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend in the new
package. Has this been intentionally removed, or is this an accident?

Best regards
Thomas

2013/4/22 Todd Zullinger <tmz(a)pobox.com&gt;:
>  This is a heads up and a request for testing of git-1.8.2.1 on el5
> (if
>  anyone here is still using git from EPEL there).
>
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/git-1.8.2.1-1.el5
>
>  This update obsoletes an ealier 1.8.1.4 update that didn't get announced
>  here.  I don't believe there are any changes from the current 1.7.4.1
>  release that would make this unacceptable for EPEL, but I could always be
>  wrong.
>  

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Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny(a)gmail.com&gt;

EPEL Updating git in -5 to 1.8.2.1

[Todd Zullinger]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Moschny wrote:
>  we are missing /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend in the new 
>  package. Has this been intentionally removed, or is this an accident? 
The git exec-path on EL5 is /usr/bin, which was a requirement when 
updating from 1.5 to prevent scripts from breaking.

You'll find git-http-backend there:

$ rpm -qpl git-1.8.2.1-1.el5.i386.rpm | grep 'git-http-backend$'
/usr/bin/git-http-backend

You can use 'git --exec-path' to get the correct path, if you need to 
determine the path in scripts.

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