2012/5/7 Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade > <paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andrade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Jerry, sorry for more newbie questions, but what is the procedure to >> request a package update? > > File a bug against the package in bugzilla. Often, people will prefix > the bug summary with "RFE: " (Request For Enhancement). The current > symmetrica maintainer is Conrad Meyer. I am comaintaining several of > his packages, because he has been short on time recently for working > on Fedora packaging. I will contact him about comaintaining > symmetrica also. Ok. Thanks for addressing the flint problem. I did not add RFE: to the symmetrica bug report, but can do that. I think it would be also reasonably to rename more functions, because they use names too much generic, e.g. add, sub, mult, div, sum, sort, etc. >> Also, what you suggest to "update" to run rawhide? > > I still think you should update to F-17. Really. It's about to be > released, but you can get the nearly final version as described here: > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-May/166719.html > > I'm not sure if the preupgrade package is ready to go yet or not, but > you could try that as well. If you really, really want to install > Rawhide, then install the fedora-release-rawhide package, then edit > the files in /etc/yum.repos.d to enable the Rawhide repositories and > disable your current repositories. Then run "yum distro-sync" and > cross your fingers. Backup your system first, either way! Thanks! I will wait a bit more, as for now I can build from sources whatever I need, but should shortly attempt to switch to rawhide, as I am used to run bleeding edge :-) > -- > Jerry James > http://www.jamezone.org/ Paulo _______________________________________________ scitech mailing list scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech
