Re: [CentOS] flex package marked as fc6 and no flex-devel?

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 11:38 +0500, umair shakil wrote:

Salam,

What is the problem the haan?????????? go and install flex.

Regards,

Umair Shakil ETD

On 9/29/07, Steven Haigh netwiz@crc.id.au wrote: Hi all,

    I'm in the middle of setting up a build environment for
    OpenWRT and it looks 
    like the packages need flex.

    Looking at the CentOS repositories, it looks as though the
    flex package is
    tagged as fc6 - it also looks like there is no flex-devel
    package at all.

    Does anyone know what the go is here? 

    Available Packages
    Name   : flex
    Arch   : i386
    Version: 2.5.4a
    Release: 41.fc6
    Size   : 124 k
    Repo   : base

    --
    Steven Haigh

<snip sig stuff>

I googled to find the post in the CentOS lists, but my memory/skills aren't up to snuff this morning. Maybe you'll have better luck, if you look.

Anyway, in a recent thread that mentioned the fact that fc6 stuff was in the CentOS repository, it was pointed out that Red Hat kept some fc6 tags on stuff they included in the final release (of 5.0?). There are probably other packages that are similarly tagged.

Because CentOS tries to be near 100% upstream-compatible, they have also kept the tags.

HTH -- Bill