On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 09:51 -0600, Justin Conover wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 9:30 AM, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:25 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > On Apr 5, 2005 11:07 AM, Justin Conover <justin.conover@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > What I don't understand is if you grab xmms from "extras" via cvs, it > > > > wont build because it needs a gcc4.patch. How was the rawhide build > > > > system building these packages if they break when you grab the > > > > src.rpm? > > > > > > > > > the xmms in rawhide was actually quite old... i see no evidence that > > > it was rebuilt with gcc4 yet. > > > > right, it wasn't. > > > > -sv > > > > > > Is there a wiki or anything that explains how the rawhide build system > works? Just for usefull info to me and maybe many others. I just > want to know how it all works. The package will only break when you recompile it with gcc4. So, for xmms, it was last updated _before_ gcc4 was made the default compiler for Fedora. Therefore, if the maintainer were to rebuild it now, since that gcc4 change, it would break and the maintainer would be forced to update the package before it could get into rawhide. Dan