[AG-TECH] Which version of RedHat will AG 2.x be on?

Mark C. Ballew ballew at dri.edu
Tue Dec 2 11:23:10 CST 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 19:06, Christoph Willing wrote:
> While it would nicer if the toolkit were distribution-neutral, binary 
> releases are currently in RH rpm format (and, even more particularly, 
> for RH7.3). Perhaps thats what the OP meant.
> 
> Building from source (or converting foreign packages) can be fun for 
> some people, a pain for others. For Slackware fans, there is an AG2.1.2 
> bundle (binaries & install script) at:
> 	http://www.ap-accessgrid.org/AG2/index.html

It might not hurt to ask some of the distribution port/portage/deb
maintainers if they'd be interested in keeping a release on their own.
Usually getting any software working on another platform or distribution
is as simple as a few patches to change pathnames and such.

Finding people to do the few changes is the problem.

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