Re: texinfo 4.8 update

[Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:23:03AM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> writes:
>>Could we please have texinfo updated to version 4.8 on sourceware?
>>
>>This contains some changes triggered by reports of mine.  I believe Ben
>>has already tested this version as well (and reported an issue that has
>>been resolved for the final release).
>
>In general we try to keep sourceware on supported RPMs using up2date
>whenever possible.  That makes it much easier for us to keep the system
>up to date with security patches and bug fixes.  up2date can't yet find
>a texinfo 4.8 RPM.

I've been treating texinfo as a special case and updating it outside of
the normal up2date offerings for a while now.  The RHEL version is 4.5-3
while the one on sourceware is 4.7-4.  This is one of the packages that
I made sure got updated when we regenerated the root partition.  I do
try to stick with rpms, though, rather than rolling our own release.

So, the 4.7-4 version that we're running was put there very recently and
it was the newest rpm I found.  I don't see any 4.8 versions available
but I'll update sourceware when one does show up.

cgf