I think DAG made a good point that if the SPEC files are only written for the latest release of a distro, it's not a RPM, APT/YUM or repository issue. Being that he has far more experience than I in maintaining the same package for multiple versions, I guess I've been a bit ignorant of that viewpoint.

-----Original Message----- From: Les Mikesell Date: 05-5-21 20:35 To: CentOS mailing list Subj: Re: [CentOS] Re: mplayer repository for CentOS

On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 00:58, Dag Wieers wrote:

Bryan, that's more a apt/yum issue than it is a repository issue. If you think repository maintainers should divide their repository in all possible permutations of what people might want (and what cross-requirements exist between these repositories), you have not maintained a big repository.

Do any of the yum-like tools have the ability to work at the src rpm level in addition to the binary ones? That is, could you maintain a a single repository of extra packages that work with a range of distributions/versions/libraries and have a tool automatically build them on the requesting system if a matching binary rpm didn't already exist?