On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Vacelet, Manuel <manuel.vacelet at enalean.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> > wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> On 19/02/15 16:48, Vacelet, Manuel wrote: >> >> > TL;DR: I need recent version of git (2.3 ATM) and I need it on centos6 >> > and centos7. >> >> this is great! We can either do it via a SCL or just inplace distro >> package replacement ( into the Plus repos ). Since you have already had >> a stab at doing this with the 1.9 git on scl's - that might be the best >> route to take here as well. I'd start from the variants over at http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/6/SRPMS/, which is a pretty nice repository for such opodated packages. Those are version 2.2, named with package names like "git2u". I'd update and name a variant "git2.3u" or something like that. > Cool ! > > I'm just wondering what are the duty and stuff for being a maintainer (esp. > all security related things). > Rebuild an existing package is a thing, being maintainer of a new version is > different. > > I'm more tempted to have it as an SCL as those packages should be usable on > RHEL too. > > Manuel > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >