[Pacemaker] epel version of rpm pacemaker-1.1.7

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Trevor Hemsley <themsley at voiceflex.com> wrote:
> On 15/05/12 05:24, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I must be coming to the party late.  I just noticed that 1.1.7 version
>>>>> of pacemaker is out.
>>>>> We are running 1.1.5 on centos5 and would like to upgrade to 1.1.7 but I
>>>>> am not finding the rpm.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is that not getting built and pushed to rpm-next/epel5 tree any more?
>>>>> Is there plans to do build it?
>>>> I believe glib on epel5 is too old to build 1.1.7 there.
>>>> Is there something preventing you from using a rhel-6 derivative?
>>> Existing applications, tools and libraries that have not been tested on RHEL-6,
>>> plus multiple systems needing to be upgraded to RHEL-6 from RHEL-5 that
>>> has yet to be tested.
>> Ok.
>>
>> If there is sufficient interest (as gauged by
>> http://beekhof.polldaddy.com/s/rhel-versions ), I will re-activate the
>> epel-5 repo and include a more recent version of glib2.
>> Please get the word out :-)
>
> Wouldn't it be better to fix the code to not use this function rather
> than update a core el5 package?
>
>

No.
The function has value, otherwise it wouldn't have been added to GLib
nor would we be using it.

Preventing progress in an upstream project because someone, somewhere,
is running a VAX isn't a tenable position.