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?
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