In article <55761C28.507 at imag.fr>, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: > > > On 06/09/2015 12:48 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > > On 06/09/2015 12:33 AM, tony at softins.co.uk (Tony Mountifield) wrote: > >> In article <ml1jnh$afr$1 at softins.softins.co.uk>, > >> Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.co.uk> wrote: > >>> When I started using CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5, I discovered that > >>> "less" no longer understood \< and \>, which I had been used to using > >>> since almost forever. > >>> > >>> Eventually research revealed that in the Fedora version on which > >>> RHEL 6 was based, "less" had been built with the PCRE regex library > >>> instead of a POSIX one. So instead of \< and \>, I had to use \b. > >>> > >> > >> I'm sure there must be other people who would find the corrected RPMs > >> useful, > >> so my questions now are: > >> > >> a) Is there a contributors repo to which it would be appropriate to > >> submit them? > >> > >> b) Is there a better way to number the release for this version? > > > > it may be better to change the package name to less-posix rather than > > change the release number, and have the new package conflict with less. > > That way once you've installed it, it won't get squashed by a yum update. > > you might need to have it provide "less" though, to avoid unmet deps eg > for man or gzip. Excellent points - thanks! I'll have a play and see what I can do. Would still like to know how/where best to contribute them. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org