Re: Who and How is responsible for released installations packages and 3rd party packs? (e.g. on https://yum.postgresql.org/9.6/redhat/rhel-7.3-x86_64/)

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Devrim Gündüz 2018-08-03 
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> > What about 3rd party libraries like plv8 - Who and How (based on which
> > criteria, which versions) build RPM and upload them there?
> 
> Latest versions of PL/v8 does not build on RHEL/Fedora anymore, at least from
> the package build point of view. RPMs are not supposed to download extra
> dependencies from elsewhere.

Fwiw, I stopped maintaining plv8 in Debian for that reason. The build
process is roughly equivalent to downloading all of chromium's
dependencies, and build v8 from that. v8 is no longer a shared
library, unfortunately.

Christoph

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