On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
I am an emacs user but not much of a git user (or a hardcore enough
emacs user to use vcs in it.) The changes between emacs in EL-5 and
22.2 is HUGE. I am not sure how much a backport would be possible. A
emacs22 would probably need to be done.
ehh? What is the issue against not carrying a local fork, and
just dropping in the upstream? It seems to tolerate the EL 5
emacs just fine [/me forgets if I needed to add leaf node
build tools, but it looks like all I had to carry to build it
were: asciidoc, cvsps, tla, and perhaps subversion to
complete the dependency chain; I dont have a README in the
deployment directory, so I assume the build was uneventful]
It appears the F 'git-1.7.2.1-1.fc11.src.rpm' also built in my
modified CentoS 5 environment
smooge -- please ping me tomorrow in IRC on this -- R
[herrold@freeswitch ~]$ rpm -qi git
Name : git Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.7.1 Vendor: orc
Release : 4orc Build Date: Tue 10 Aug 2010 09:45:46 AM EDT
Install Date: Wed 18 Aug 2010 02:52:18 PM EDT Build Host: elided
Group : Development/Tools Source RPM: git-1.7.1-4orc.src.rpm
Size : 12090578 License: GPL
URL :
http://git-scm.com/
Summary : Git core and tools
Description :
...
[herrold@freeswitch ~]$ rpm -q emacs
emacs-21.4-20.el5
[herrold@freeswitch ~]$
-- Russ herrold