unison updates

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 06:19:06PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:08:10PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> > On 04/19/2011 05:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > Actually it looks like I was even lazier than that and just built it
> > > from source. I seem to be running 2.32.52. I just needed whatever
> > > version would interoperate with my Mandriva machines.
> > 
> > Good news is current unison builds just fine with the existing SPEC with 
> > trivial updates.
> > 
> > Can somebody recommend an existing package to use as an example that 
> > maintains multiple versions of a source tree to build multiple versions 
> > of the main binary?
> > 
> Don't do that.  It's not a good path to take.  When you have multiple binary
> rpms built from a single source rpm, anytime there's a change to any of the
> included sources all of the binary rpms end up being updated.  This is not
> desirable for end users.  Yes, maintaining separate source and binary
> packages is more work for the packager but it is nicer for the end user.

The binary RPMs are small, updates are very infrequent (< 1/yr), and
Unison is not a very widely used package.  Really this is a non-issue,
compared to the really mighty packager/Fedora infrastructure burden
you propose as the alternative.

Rich.

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