Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (65 mails)

[Andrew Wafaa <awafaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:22:15 +0900
Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> While trying to get GNOME 2.24 build on openSUSE 11.0, I found that
> with our BuildRequires, a lot of packages will build against old
> versions in 11.0. Reason for this is that we, in most cases, don't
> use something like:
>
> BuildRequires: xyz-devel >= x.y.z
>
> This causes the repo to be rebuilt frequently against old/new
> packages.
>
> So, my question is, should we try to fix this up (obviously not
> against all packages at once)? I think it'd be quite good to have in
> the future (think, building GNOME 2.26 for openSUSE 11.1 if we get
> that far.. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus

Magnus,

AFAIK, it isn't the openSUSE way to do things like that (depend on
specific versions) best double check with darix et al, but I have been
advised not to.  I know the other distros do so, but hey we're a
special bunch :)

Regards,

Andy

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