[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Distributions and binaries

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:32:35PM +0100, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> I just discovered that we are in RedHat, SuSe and Debian distributions 
> (maybe in others too, don't know).  Isn't it great news?  
> 
> Well, maybe for some it is not news at all...  And for some it's not 
> great: they contain so much stuff, they probably grab verything they 
> see...  But at least we passed their quality control.
> 
> Also, SuSe 8.0 includes 1.12.0 version but the SuSe-binary on out ftp site 
> is 1.11.4.
> 
> Same with Debian: you can download precompiled 1.12.0 from Debian itself, 
>       http://packages.debian.org/testing/games/freeciv.html
> but not from FreeCiv ftp-site.

The distributions compile their own rpms. To follow their directory
layout for example.

        Raimar

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