117783 - no RPMs for Red Hat 6.x (and compatible) systems

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Scott]

In the past (up to 0.9.5, at least), pre-built binary RPMs for Red Hat Linux
6.x and compatible systems were available with each release on the FTP site. 
For 0.9.7, the RPMs are labeled as for RHL 7.x:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.7/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/

  According to the release notes, "The Red Hat RPM builds are created to work
with the default Red Hat 6.x and Red Hat 7.x installations."  Either the release
notes are wrong, or the directory is incorrectly named.  (I have not tried those
RPMs on my RHL 6.2 system yet.)

  If the released RPMs *are* for RHL 7.x only, I would like to request that RPMs
be built for RHL 6.x systems again.  Binaries for RHL 6.x should work on RHL 7.x
systems, but the reverse is not true.  Other distributions tell a similar tale.
 Since I would assume releases are designed to work on as many systems as
possible, it makes more sense to build RPMs for 6.x than 7.x.

  If RPMs for RHL 6.x are simply not going to happen, the Release Notes should
be corrected to (1) indicate RPMs are for RHL 7.x and compatible systems only,
and (2) note the change in the "What's New" section.

Comment 1

[Jon Granrose]

rpms are contributed, reassigning to contributor.

Comment 2

[Andreas Metzler]

You can build your own RPMs from the src.rpm or try mine.
http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/mozilla/
                  cu andreas

Comment 3

[Aleksey Nogin]

I see 0.9.8 RPMs for both 7x
(http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.8/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/) and
6x (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.8/Red_Hat_6x_RPMS/).

Comment 4

[Jon Granrose]

verified fixed.