In article 55761C28.507@imag.fr, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
On 06/09/2015 12:48 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
On 06/09/2015 12:33 AM, tony@softins.co.uk (Tony Mountifield) wrote:
In article ml1jnh$afr$1@softins.softins.co.uk, Tony Mountifield tony@softins.co.uk wrote:
When I started using CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5, I discovered that "less" no longer understood < and >, which I had been used to using since almost forever.
Eventually research revealed that in the Fedora version on which RHEL 6 was based, "less" had been built with the PCRE regex library instead of a POSIX one. So instead of < and >, I had to use \b.
I'm sure there must be other people who would find the corrected RPMs useful, so my questions now are:
a) Is there a contributors repo to which it would be appropriate to submit them?
b) Is there a better way to number the release for this version?
it may be better to change the package name to less-posix rather than change the release number, and have the new package conflict with less. That way once you've installed it, it won't get squashed by a yum update.
you might need to have it provide "less" though, to avoid unmet deps eg for man or gzip.
Excellent points - thanks! I'll have a play and see what I can do.
Would still like to know how/where best to contribute them.
Cheers Tony