I'm not sure what the proper avenue for requesting updates to EPEL packages is, so if such requests aren't welcome on this mailing list, please redirect me.
I'm trying to switch over to the tiling window manager i3, but the version in the EPEL repo is at version 4.0.1, which was compiled in 2011. Would anyone be willing to package a newer version and get it into the repo? I tried installing the latest version in the Fedora 19 repo, but tried to install ~1800 packages as dependencies and failed due to conflicts (which probably has something to do with the fact that I'm on a CentOS 6.4 system).
There are some pretty aggravating bugs in the current repo version that have been fixed in later versions, including one especially annoying Chrome bug that was fixed as early as v. 4.0.2 (https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2686 ).
Thank you!
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:26:42AM -0600, Kyle Strand wrote:
I'm not sure what the proper avenue for requesting updates to EPEL packages is, so if such requests aren't welcome on this mailing list, please redirect me.
The last time I checked, they were some deps on XCB packages which are not in EPEL6 or base-EL6.
The best way to request that is to file a bug in bugzilla and ask the maintainers [1] (they're very responsive).
EDIT:
I tried to a scratch build and it didn't find xcb-util-keysyms-devel, so that confirm it (see [2] for details)
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora+EPEL&version=el...
[2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6054154
Thanks.
-- Athmane
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