[Epiphany] Re: Epiphany RPM packages for RH9

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2003, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> 
> > Dag Wieers writes: 
> > 
> > > I'm building epiphany RPM packages for RH9, you can find these at: 
> > 
> > If you're going to do this, could you build them against blizzard's Moz rpms 
> > available at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/experimental/gtk2. 
> > These tend to be the best mozilla RPMs around and are pretty widely used. 
> 
> I can't do that, sorry. My repository is self-contained and I cannot and 
> will not depend on packages outside my repository. (Apt doesn't work like 
> that anyhow.)
> 
> The only exception to date is my mozilla-j2re packages, because I'm not 
> allowed to package and distributed j2re.
> 
> On the upside though, I have used blizzard's original source RPM and made 
> some improvements. I was planning to send them upstream today. So 
> there's a small chance that future blizzard RPMs use some of my changes.
> 
> However nothing to be scared of.

And for what it's worth, there aren't any Mozilla 1.4b packages from 
blizzard available yet.

And the ones that are available don't have a proper release tag. So they 
probably have to increase the epoch once again to make sure they're being 
updated. *sigh*

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