On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 00:50 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day wrote, at 08/14/2008 12:24 AM +9:00: > > > is there a specific bugzilla page where one requests the RPMifying > > > of the newer version of an existing package? thanks. > > > > > > rday > > > -- > > > > Please go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/index.cgi and file a new bug > > with the Component you want to upgrade and with the Summary > > "RFE: upgrade foo to version XXXXX" or so. > ---- > there are no specific pages for RFE's but rather the obligation to > search to see if a similar request already exists (and add to it) or if > not, then create your own entry. > > Some things to consider when requesting a newer version... > > - Detail which features the newer version has that the current one > doesn't have. > > - Provide links to information on the updated package/features > > - Try downloading the current SRPM and installing it, then getting the > newer tarball and swapping that for the one in the SRPM and then > building it, even installing it if possible, to see what challenges the > packager would have to deal with (if any). > > Craig just to turn this into a concrete example, i was after subversion-1.5.1. currently, the latest version for f9 appears to be this one: $ rpm -q subversion subversion-1.4.6-7.i386 $ but then i found this page: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=752 which appears to suggest that 1.5.1 does indeed exist for f9. i'm just not sure how to interpret that page -- doesn't it imply that subversion has been successfully packaged for f9? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
