[WBEL-devel] Decision time re: rpm-4.2.2-0.14.src.rpm

[William Hooper]

John Morris said:
> Time to toss one out to the list and get an opinion.
>
> The problem: the version of rpm included in U2 can't be patched for
> whitebox.  The patch touches configure.ac and this triggers off GNU
> autoconf/automake/libtool/blah/blah when the package gets rebuilt.
> Problem is this new version of rpm depends on a much newer version of all
> that GNU auto[blah] than they supply for RHEL3.

This is the patch because of the missing redhat-release, right?

> Options I have thought of:

5) Have whitebox-release provide redhat-release, and if that isn't enough,
make a symlink /etc/redhat-release -> /etc/whitebox-release.

That will also save you a patch to rhn-applet :-)

-- 
William Hooper