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Wednesday 1st July 2009

Local Packages

I built the automake packages as a reaction to the controversial set of updates to automake 1.11 made for Fedora releases 9, 10, and 11 - in particular the one for Fedora 11 which is already "stable". As a packager, I sometimes need to make patches to autotools files, and the resulting patches to the generated output is always smaller and more understandable if I use the same versions of the tools that the original project used, hence the usefulness of these compatibility packages.