Transifex update - intltool requirement (was: Need a Sysadmin Greeter)

[Matt_Domsch at Dell.com]

Can you ask tx upstream why they need that level of intltool, and if there is a way to work around it?

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Matt Domsch
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-----Original Message-----
From: infrastructure-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:infrastructure-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Domingo Becker
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 7:09 AM
To: Fedora Infrastructure
Subject: Re: Transifex update - intltool requirement (was: Need a Sysadmin Greeter)

2010/12/9 Domingo Becker <domingobecker at gmail.com>:
> 2010/12/9 Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>:
>> On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:42:02 -0300
>> Domingo Becker <domingobecker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, you're right, it's sysadmin-web.
>>> I'm new in fedora-admin and I'm working on ticket 2389, about 
>>> Transifex update.
>>>
>>> I have no problem to take care of Transifex once I get it updated.
>>
>> Cool. There are several other tickets related to it...
>>
>>> I'm currently stuck with the transifex package requirement of 
>>> intltool
>>> 0.37.1 or above.
>>> CentOS 5.5 base repo has intltool 0.35.0 so I guess it would be 
>>> faster for Fedora to push an update to Fedora EPEL 5 updates-testing repo.
>>
>> Not possible I'm afraid.
>>
>> EPEL never ships anything thats part of the base OS.
>>
>
> Oops
>
>>> I asked Matthias Lasen (mclasen), the intltool package maintainer, 
>>> about the possibility to push an update to Fedora EPEL 5. I'm still 
>>> waiting for an answer.
>>
>> He's likely not going to be able to help.
>> You would need to get the RHEL maintainer (whoever that is) to push 
>> such an update. I suspect they would have very strong resistance to 
>> doing so in a stable release. ;(
>>
>
> I tested in CentOS 5.5 with a package for F10.
> But I did that by hand.
> Doing that would be like cheating!
> And it may be not acceptable by some internal policy.
>
> I thought of the install to be as easy as doing a
>
>  yum install --enablerepo=epel-testing transifex
>
> I have all packages in place now, except intltool.  :-(
>
> Who maintains intltool in RHEL5?
> Perhaps asking...
>

If the package may not reach RHEL5 updates-testing, I guess we may use the fedora-admin repo for this exception.

Is it possible?
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