2010-06-02 14:02 keltezéssel, Petr Lautrbach írta: > On 06/02/2010 12:56 PM, Peter Czanik wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> 2010-05-12 17:07 keltezéssel, Daniel J Walsh írta: >> >>>> I'm looking for information, how to get a package (in my case: >>>> syslog-ng) updated to the latest available version. First I tried to >>>> contact the original syslog-ng packagers directly, but I got no response >>>> at all. Here on the list I got some questions about the new syslog-ng >>>> version, but while I update my rawhide installation quite often, I still >>>> did not see an update for syslog-ng. >>>> >>>> Now I looked around on the Fedora wiki, how I could to the packaging >>>> work myself. I found a page with many interesting details: >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join , but this seems >>>> to be for packagers joining to add a new package. How could I get an >>>> existing package upgraded? >>>> >>>> Bye, >>>> CzP >>>> >>>> >>> Have you opened a bugzilla requesting the update? >>> >>> I think you need to sign up and work to become a provenpackager. >>> >>> >> I did not open a bugzilla request yet, but it does not seem to be >> appropriate any more, as syslog-ng and related libraries seem to be >> dropped from Fedora (it is the same on FC13 and rawhide): >> >> > You really should open bugzilla request. > Done: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598961 >> [root@fedora13 ~]# yum install syslog-ng >> > ... > >> Installing: >> syslog-ng i686 2.1.4-6.fc12 >> fedora 138 k >> Installing for dependencies: >> eventlog i686 0.2.7-4.fc12 >> fedora 16 k >> libnet i686 1.1.4-3.fc12 >> fedora 49 k >> >> > So syslog-ng is still there. It wasn't just rebuilt since fc12 as there was no > mass rebuild for fc13 and no update by package maintainer. Ah, good to know. I just teach sometimes Fedora/RHEL/CentOS, I never developed for it :-) I package for openSUSE and FreeBSD, where each little change triggers a rebuild of all dependent packages. > Last changelog > entry is from f12(-rawhide) times: > > * Tue Sep 15 2009 Ray Van Dolson <rayvd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - 2.1.4-8 > - Adjust eventlog build requirement > > >> And a bonus question, as I work now for the upstream developer of >> syslog-ng: what was the reason for dropping syslog-ng from the distribution? >> > It's still there, see https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/syslog-ng > Which is very good news :) Thanks, bye, CzP -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
