SP SRPM's

[Cantor, Scott]

On 11/16/16, 7:30 PM, "users on behalf of Klingenstein, Nate" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of nklingenstein at calstate.edu> wrote:

> I tried digging into the RHEL5 one as an ancient release that was likely to have every dependency, but unless I
> have this completely screwed up, it appears to be different:
>    
>    http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security://shibboleth/RHEL_5/src/
>    http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security://shibboleth/CentOS_7/src/

Either they're byte identical or not, there's no way to tell from a directory listing and I have never checked. As a source package it really shouldn't matter, any differences should be cosmetic.

> Are other packaging tools like apt as hard to maintain?

RPM is by far the simplest I have used but the problem isn't the packaging, it's reliably managing dozens of builds across operating systems and capturing the results.

-- Scott