[CentOS] Many Fedora 6 packages in CentOS 5

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 19:43:49 UTC 2007


On 4/13/07, Frank Büttner <frank-buettner at gmx.net> wrote:
> Why are there so many Fedora 6 packages in CentOS 5?
> Are there something wrong with the build system?

This is an upstream issue that is duplicated down in centos. Mostly
it's because PNAELV doesn't seem to care much about proper dist tags.
There've been several heated exchanges about this on various lists,
and if I recall correctly it's a fairly sore spot for some of the
RPMForge folks.


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