Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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? It implies that it was built for F9. It doesn't mean that the build got pushed as an update. In this case, it was pushed to updates-testing and it is still there. You could use: yum --enablerepo updates-testing update subversion to get the update and test it. See https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-6536 for comments on the update, many suggesting that pushing it to F9 would be a mistake as there is disagreement over whether the update breaks the ABI (and thus causes apps linked against libsvn to require rebuilds and/or patches. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What it means to take rights seriously is that one will honor them even when there is a significant social cost in doing so. -- Ronald Dworkin
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