On 11/23/2011 07:37 PM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
Hi all.
As the patents for the Bytecode interpreter has been expired [1], I wonder if we could build freetype '--with bytecode_interpreter' set.
Greets Marcus
[1] http://www.freetype.org/patents.html _______________________________________________
Only if they build it that way in RHEL.
Wouldn't this be a candidate for the centosplus repo?
You build other packages with options different to upstream in centosplus (e.g, postfix with mysql support enabled)?
We could do that if there is a need.
Putting this in the upstream bugzilla might get it turned on for the main distro.
Ok, I am going to check if RHEL ships with Bytecode Interpreter already active. If not, I am going to create an upstream BZ.
Until then it's a perfect candidate for centosplus.
So centosplus may contain packages that are already in base?
Indeed.
How is made sure that these are taken? By higher Release Tags or just by includes/excludes?
by default centosplus is disabled. users must make sure that they include what's needed and exclude what is not. see http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus . In particular, ".centos" is also added to the release.
In my case, for instance: [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&rep... #baseurl=http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/centos.org/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 exclude=postfix
#released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&rep... #baseurl=http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/centos.org/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 exclude=postfix
In this particular case , I have my own postfix ( mysql enabled, no pgsql) that I want to protect, but the idea is the same. In the initial days I used to use postfix-centos.mysql_pgsql.i386.rpm but I decided that the postgresql stack was useless for my use case and got rid of it.