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

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 20:06, William Hooper wrote:
> 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.

  I vote for this one as it is what Red Hat does for Fedora, anyhow.

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