On 06/25/2013 05:06 AM, stefan.paetow@diamond.ac.uk wrote:
FR 3.0 in RHEL 7 depends on when FR 3.0 is officially released. Obviously we won't package a non-released version. The cut off point for RHEL 7 packages is close (sorry I can't post internal milestones).
John,
When FR 3.0 goes into RHEL 7, will you also make packages available for FR 3 for RHEL6/CentOS 6.x, or is that up to the CentOS maintainers?
There is no guarantee that RHEL 7 will get FR 3.0, it's a scheduling issue and the timing is very close, it's still an open question. We'll only provide FR 3.0 for RHEL 6 if there is strong customer demand. I don't follow the CentOS packages but to the best of my knowledge they've never packaged stuff which did not originate from Red Hat.
I noticed that in your FR 2.2 spec (for Fedora 17) you used a version of systemd that is not available on CentOS, so I hacked your spec back to the FR 2.1.12 version (sorry! *cringe*) for my FR 2.2 RPMs to build properly.
There are differences between our distributions which results in differences in the spec files. One either parameterizes the spec file with conditionals and share the spec file between distributions or you maintain independent spec files per distribution, there are pros and cons to both. I've moved to keeping independent spec files and merging the changes between the spec files with each FR release.