Re: wanting an updated version in CentOS 7 repo

Hey John,

Log in the past I used to copy nano SRPMs to an incoming dir at Redhat and
they would eventually accept it (or maybe they didn't, there wasn't any
communication back from them :-)) ; it's been long enough that I don't have
any documentation of where it was copied to unfortunately and I imagine
that's no longer the process.

I agree with Benno that the situation looks bleak for getting an updated
version of nano into CentOS/Redhat, especially under IBM's ownership and
whatever substantial infrastructure they'e put in place to insulate these
OSes from upstream changes.  See also this article at Redhat:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2074

However, if Redhat still looks at Fedora for package updates, you may be
able to get a new version updated by following the process outlined at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/New_package_process_for_existing_contributors
(or
more likely by asking whoever is nano's Fedora maintainer to do it).

I hope this helps!  Have a good day.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 3:17 PM Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Op 30-01-19 om 20:25 schreef John Carew:
> > I think my question was misunderstood. I am willing to compile the latest
> > myself, how does someone add that new version compiled into the repo.
> > Willing to do all the work to wrap it up in a RPM and all, just need to
> know
> > what the procedure is to get the RPM there afterwards.
>
> There is no way to get it there.  That is what item 21 of the FAQ says.
>
> > Also, how did the current one that is in the repo get there?
>
> CentOS is copied from Red Hat.  So the Red Hat developers put it there,
> when RHEL 7 was released.  And item 21 means that after a release there
> will be no updates to newer versions.
>
> (But you're asking the wrong persons.  The nano developers have no say
> in what Red Hat or any other distro puts in their repos.)
>
> Benno
>
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