outdated packages in rawhide

Alex Kiernan alex.kiernan at thus.net
Sat Jan 10 10:39:49 UTC 2004


Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de> writes:

> On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:32:44 +0100, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> 
> > package        latest rawhide
> > -------       ------- -------
> 
> > parted          1.6.6   1.6.3
> 
> Probably due to heavy patching (10 patches with a total of ~100 KiB last
> time I had a look at a 1.6.3 package) and libparted's importance with
> regard to Anaconda (Disk Druid).
> 

I extracted the patches from RedHat's 1.6.3 (the tarball in the SRPM
isn't pristine) last weekend, and successfully built a 1.6.6 by
reapplying them; I just haven't got around to sticking all the pieces
into bugzilla yet.

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc





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