On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 20:11:13 -0400 > Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:41:01PM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote: >> > But the perl-Net-DNS-SEC package requires Digest::SHA which doesn't >> > exist on RHEL. How do I convert a dead package on the fedora side >> > to a EL only set of branches? I'd assume it'll be the original bug >> > request and re-opening a new branch? my biggest fear is that >> > something will shoot it dead again though. >> >> If you're going to maintain it in EPEL, could you maintain it in >> Fedora as well? > > The package went away in Fedora because it became part of perl core in > perl 5.10.0; this will also be the case in EL-6. Indeed, perl-Digest-SHA is available in the current RHEL6 beta[1] (and is even there for all architectures). The source rpm is perl itself[2]. > However, in Fedora, some of the so-called dual-lived perl modules > (which are distributed both as part of perl itself and also > independently via CPAN) are being resurrected as such, so bringing it > back into Fedora is probably worthwhile anyway. But in that case it MUST NOT be resurrected in EPEL; we shouldn't be replacing RHEL packages with EPEL ones. [1] ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/5.90Server/x86_64/os/Packages/perl-Digest-SHA-5.47-113.el6.x86_64.rpm [2] ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/5.90Server/source/SRPMS/perl-5.10.1-113.el6.src.rpm -- Iain. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
