On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:54 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Craig White wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 00:50 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote, at 08/14/2008 12:24 AM +9:00: > > > > is there a specific bugzilla page where one requests the RPMifying > > > > of the newer version of an existing package? thanks. > > > > > > > > rday > > > > -- > > > > > > Please go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/index.cgi and file a new bug > > > with the Component you want to upgrade and with the Summary > > > "RFE: upgrade foo to version XXXXX" or so. > > ---- > > there are no specific pages for RFE's but rather the obligation to > > search to see if a similar request already exists (and add to it) or if > > not, then create your own entry. > > > > Some things to consider when requesting a newer version... > > > > - Detail which features the newer version has that the current one > > doesn't have. > > > > - Provide links to information on the updated package/features > > > > - Try downloading the current SRPM and installing it, then getting the > > newer tarball and swapping that for the one in the SRPM and then > > building it, even installing it if possible, to see what challenges the > > packager would have to deal with (if any). > > > > Craig > > just to turn this into a concrete example, i was after > subversion-1.5.1. currently, the latest version for f9 appears to be > this one: > > $ rpm -q subversion > subversion-1.4.6-7.i386 > $ > > but then i found this page: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=752 > > which appears to suggest that 1.5.1 does indeed exist for f9. i'm > just not sure how to interpret that page -- doesn't it imply that > subversion has been successfully packaged for f9? ---- you picked an interesting test case to be sure because on RHEL, they are indeed using subversion-1.5.1 but on Fedora, 1.5.1 is only available in updates-testing Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
