[CentOS] Re: mplayer repository for CentOS

Sun May 22 01:57:58 UTC 2005
Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>

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?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com


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