I wanted to know your guys' success rate when installing and rebuilding RPMs in CentOS (specifically 4.0) that have come from Dag's Repositories (http://dag.wieers.com/packages/).
dag's rpms have been 99.9999999999% flawless for me on both centos and RHEL
I have noticed a number of these packages stalling at various points throughout an rpmbuild process, and I can't quite get it. It looks almost as if they were all built for RHEL4.0, but if CentOS is supposed to follow so close in RHEL's footsteps, why would this be a problem?
I suspect something in your build system is possibly screwed. I've not had any issues rebuilding the few packages I've needed to.
I'll give Dag an email and see if he has anything to say about that. Once I get enough information, I'll just go ahead and hack up the RPMs so that they work properly on my systems - but I thought I'd ask beforehand, as to not re-invent the wheel.
Rebuilding the prebuilt packages would seem to me to be reinventing the wheel. Is there a reason that you need to rebuild them?
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