David Mansfield <fedora <at> dm.cobite.com> writes: > if you have any 'install from source' programs, it's hit-or-miss as to > whether they'll need to be recompiled, reinstalled and reconfigured, and > in my 10 years experience, I've learned to never bring precompiled code > from another platform over, even if the other platform is Fedora > $(current-1). Well, at http://repo.calcforge.org/fedora/ I only rebuild the packages which actually need rebuilding for the newer Fedora (but if I build a new version for another reason, it will be built on the newer Fedora), there's at least one package which was built on Fedora Core 5 and still runs fine on Fedora 8. Figuring out whether a package needs rebuilding is fairly easy: if it has broken dependencies, rebuild, if you try running it and it doesn't start up, rebuild, otherwise it's very likely not to need a rebuild, so just leave it as is and only rebuild if you (or somebody else using your builds, if any) notice any breakage. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
