2008/2/21 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx>: > Stephen Warren wrote: > > So, I'm a Fedora packager. I can look into packaging the old Unison > > version alongside the bleeding-edge version. I imagine (hope) it'd be as > > simple as pulling the old .spec file from CVS and renaming the package. > > > It could be but probably isn't. When installing an old version we want > the packages to be parallel installable. With something like unison, > this is easy to show -- I have my laptop which I need to keep synced > with my computer at work and computer at home. Those two computers have > different versions of unison installed. Therefore my laptop needs to > have both of those versions. > > Taking a brief glance at the unison spec file it looks like you can just > rename most files from unison* to unison2.13* but I haven't looked > inside the source files to see that this is the only necessary change. > Wouldn't the remote unison be expecting the binary to be called unison? To make the compat-* operation seamless, /all/ unison packages might have to use the alternatives system. (mea culpa, I was involved in pushing the new unison into Fedora) -- Michel Salim http://hircus.jaiku.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
