On 26 March 2012 14:10, philippe makowski <pmakowski@...> wrote:

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> philippe makowski [2012-03-26 15:04] :
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> > Nick Upson [2012-03-26 14:42] :
> >
> >> I have been unable to locate an epel 2.5.1, or indeed any epel rpm
> above 2.1.4.
> >>
> > EPEL 5 -> Firebird 2.1.4
> > EPEL 6 -> Firebird 2.5.1
> >
> >
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/firebird?_csrf_token=78f5f5e9f1daca747407cf54a20c35cee6eeef55
> >
> > Firebird 2.5 don't build under Centos 5 or RHEL 5
> >
> and it is also against the distribution policy to provide major version
> upgrade inside a release, just bug fixes
> so in officials repositories Centos 5 or RHEL 5 can only have Firebird
> 2.1.x and Centos 6 or RHEL 6 can only have Firebird 2.5.x, will not have
> Firebird 3.x
>

thank you for that

does that mean firebird 2.5 cannot build under Centos 5 or just that it
will not be supplied but I could build it myself

Nick Upson


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