Fedora PPC RPM repo?

Wed Feb 2 13:09:02 MST 2005

My experience in successfully upgrading packages in YDL-3 to versions
newer than what exists in the YDL-3.0.1 tree has been to download source
RPM's from the original producer, Redhat, or elsewhere and build the
newer version locally within the YDL-3 environment. The major issue with
doing this is dealing with the dependencies.

Quite often I find that the requirements within a spec file are over
specified.  You really have to look at each package on a case by case
basis to determine the *minimum* requirement set.

I don't have a big problem with a vendor over specifying requirements.
That's often just a quick and dirty way of saying "we know by testing
that this package works with this set of requirements. It may work with
others that we have not tested".

Sometimes you cannot locate a source RPM but can find a tarball. You can
try your hand at modifying the SPEC file from an earlier version SRPM
that you have available from YDL.

Once you get something to successfully build [and test], you then have
to deal with the consequences of installation.  Often you will find that
other packages depend upon the package you are updating. If you are
fortunate, simply rebuilding those packages may be all that is
required.  If you are less fortunate, you may have to update even more
packages.

And so it goes...

-Joseph

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On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:27, Steven J. Norton wrote:
> All --
> 
> This may speak to an issue I'm having: I've got YDL 3 on an Old World G3
> that is currently serving (temporarily) as the production server for a
> couple of web sites. Thus, I'm not in a hurry to try drastic upgrades. But
> what is the best way to find a ppc RPM of the latest version of PHP
> (4.3.10)? [This was an important security update.]
> 
> The Fedora PPC development repository has v5 (jumps a level), and the
> version that apparently shipped with YDL4 is 4.3.8. The Fedora project has a
> source RPM for 4.3.10, but I'm a bit nervous compiling it on my own,
> especially for use on a live server. [PHP.net offers source, but not in RPM
> format -- even scarier.] Is this something Matthias would be willing to do?
> What are my options?
> 
> Any help appreciated. Thanks!
> 
>   -- Steve Norton
> 
> on 2/1/05 11:028 PM, mascarasnake <dontdrill at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:28:08 -0500
> > From: mascarasnake <dontdrill at earthlink.net>
> > Subject: Re: Fedora PPC RPM repo?
> > To: Yellow Dog Linux General Discussion List
> >   <yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> > Message-ID: <420056D8.40900 at earthlink.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> > 
> > Hey my simian simpatico -
> > you can actuall get acces by pointing yum here:
> > <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/>
> > 
> > I'm downloading the headers as I type
> > 
> > cheers, g'luck and all that stuff
> > 
> > Andrew wrote:
> >> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:25:40 -0800
> >> a monkey <the.only.monkey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> I think Yellow Dog is basically the best distro around PPC-wise. But its
> >>> RPMs are not bleeding-edge enough for me. The only up-to-date enough PPC
> >>> RPM repository that I can find is Fedora's:
> >>> 
> >>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/Fedo
> >>> ra/
> >>> 
> >>> Any idea how to configure "yum" to use that repo? I know, I know, it's
> >>> not the smartest thing in the world to fool around with development
> >>> repos, but I'm desperate here. I'm not a big fan of compiling my
> >>> software. So, any tips will be appreciated.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed,
> >>> the monker
> >> 
> >> 
> >> For what I know Fedora's yum repositories are not YDL compatible anymore as
> >> they don't
> >> use zillions of headers files like we do. I heard they got them all
> >> compressed in a
> >> single big files.. of something like that.
> >> 
> >> sorry. 
> 
> 
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