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Re: README-prereq update
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Matej Cepl |
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Re: README-prereq update |
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Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:38:20 +0000 (UTC) |
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Eric Blake, Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:58:02 -0700:
>> > I'll update the automake info...
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>> I just pushed this:
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=ba6e08c
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> That's still misleading. Automake 1.11 is a stable release, and distros
> are starting to pick it up as such. At present, it is no longer
> necessary to check out automake.git to build coreutils.
I would stress "starting to" in your response:
bradford:~$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 11 (Leonidas)
bradford:~$ rpm -q automake
automake-1.10.2-3.noarch
bradford:~$
This is not-yet-released Fedora 11, which is distro known to distribute
always obsolete versions of packages.
Matěj