Test GIMP 2.7/2.8 ?

[Dan Horák]

Nils Philippsen píše v Po 11. 01. 2010 v 12:31 +0100: 
> On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 21:38 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > >> > I there a way to test new GIMP 2.7/2.8 in Fedora? I looked in Rawhide
> > >> > repos and I still see only 2.6x versions there. Any plans to put 2.7 in
> > >> > Rawhide repost for testing purposes?
> > >>
> > >> Should I ask on development channel?
> > >
> > > You might file an RFE bug against gimp and see what the packager says.
> > >
> > 
> > Posted bugzilla RFE, but still no reponse :(
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551837
> 
> The problem with this is that different GIMP versions can't be installed
> into the same prefix. While I could package gimp/gegl/babl from git,
> this is far from stable ATM, so I won't replace the gimp-2.6 packages in
> Fedora with it. Taken together, this means I can't package unstable gimp
> as a Fedora package because this needs to be installable side-by-side
> with the stable version, meaning it needs to go into /opt or /usr/local
> which is a no-no from an FHS point of view (making it uneligible as a
> Fedora package).
> 
> At some point (time permitting), I'll probably make a
> (non-FHS-compliant) package, but this will just be an inofficial one
> which I'll e.g. put on fedorapeople.

I am running my own koji instance with results published at
http://fedora.danny.cz/danny/ for exactly this purpose (bleeding edge
packages, packages waiting in review queue, ...). So if you want just
send me the srpm and the system will do the rest.


Dan