Re: need help finding previous/older versions of rpms

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:55 AM, August Simonelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:42 PM, August Simonelli <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I was just wondering if anyone maintains an archive of previously
>>> released rpms anywhere?
>>>
>>> Specifically I need tomcat6-6.0.24 but the main mirror has .18:
>>>
>>> http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/generic/free/SRPMS/
>>>
>>> and the updates has .26
>>>
>>> http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/5.0-updates/generic/free/RPMS/
>>
>> Those are two different forks of package building, with significantly
>> different layouts of package. It's in fact quite difficult to use 6.0
>> right now for some OS's such as RHEL 5, because many of those packages
>> were built with a much more recent version of "rpm" itself and
>> therefore cannot be installed, as RPM's, on that OS. (This is in a
>> slow process of repair: I suspect you'll see notes on this list as it
>> occurs.)
>>
>> It looks like you need to backport the tomcat6.0.0.26 to version
>> 6.0.24. Are you comfortable doing that? What is your base OS, and do
>> you need help?
>
> Nico ...
>
> By backport do you mean grab the .26 src rpm and then build off that
> spec with .24 sources etc? I did try that on a rhel 5 system (aha!) by
> changing the version in the spec and putting the .24 src tarball in
> ... but finally got stuck with:
>
> error: Failed build dependencies:
>        jakarta-commons-dbcp-tomcat5 is needed by tomcat6-6.0.24-1.noarch
>        jakarta-commons-pool-tomcat5 is needed by tomcat6-6.0.24-1.noarch
>
> But i got this from the 5 branch i think ...
> (tomcat6-6.0.26-1.jpp5.src.rpm from
> http://jpackage.org/browser/rpm.php?jppversion=5.0-updates&id=8588) so
> should a backport work on rhel5?

That's from the 5.0-updates branch, not the 5.0 branch.

Why not install jakarta-commons-* from the 5.0 branch?

>
> August
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Is there anywhere else i can look if i missed 24 when it came through?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> August
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