On 08/25/2016 11:40 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
Perhaps you could explain exactly what you want to propose here
again?
Just epel6? or 7 as well? Do you have co-maintainers in case you get
busy, etc?
I propose adding several gnu packages (namely gcc, binutils and gdb)
with versions following those supplied by fedora, specifically for
epel6, but possibly for epel7 if requested.
This could hold a pattern such as /opt/gnu/[gcc|binutils|gdb]/<version>/
to allow several version to co-exist.
I don't have any co-maintainers, but I mainly get busy in my day job,
which happens to be the reason I maintain those packages.
I propose importing fc24 packages as and when they become available,
maintaining the exact same packages - so gcc6.1 srpm would create the
entire suite* of rpms currently available on fc24.
My current scheme is relying on environment modules to "switch" between
versions - each installation of course creates and installs the modules
file which also maintains dependencies - binutils >= 2.24 must be loaded
prior to loading gcc6 etc.
(*) I have no experience building and packaging gcc-gnat, so not quite
the entire suite, but I could probably learn to build that too.
I think we are all open to ideas how to do things better, but it's
really not clear what is best or even exactly what is proposed. ;)
kevin
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