version 2.1.24rc1 rpms

[Simon Matter]

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>
> wrote:
>>> Does anyone know if there are rpm packages available yet for version
>>> 2.1.24rc1? I'm specifically looking for CentOS, but a spec file would
>>> help too.
>>
>> Maybe you can take the current Fedora sources
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=cyrus-sasl.git;a=tree as a start
>> and try to upgrade it to 2.1.24rc1 and make it build on the distribution
>> of your choice?
>
> My thinking too. I thought I was halfway decent at rebuilding rpms,
> but this one has me stumped. I'm working with src rpm from Fedora

Hm, yes, forgot to warn you. I have maintained some older versions on
different distributions in the past and I know what you mean :)

> rawhide attempting to create a package for CentOS 5. I've spent the
> last hour searching for how these patches against older versions of
> the source (e.g. cyrus-sasl-2.1.18-no_rpath.patch) can work without
> said source. I'm guessing that maybe these source rpms are not
> complete and you have to either download the source from the earlier
> version or recreate the patches for the newer version??? I'm beginning
> to see why these rpms never seem to receive any new features until
> some time after they are released.

Yes, that's quite a lot of work. You have to see which patches in the old
package are now not needed anymore because it has been fixed, which
patches have to be upgraded to the new version, and which of them are
required to build the current RC on an older system. For example the rpath
patch, there is a good chance it is not required anymore if it can be set
via a configure options?

Simon