Re: Upgradin git

From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 21, 2010, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20100621202209.GO12888@inocybe.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1277145270235-5205581.post@n2.nabble.com>

jhapk wrote:

> I am using fedora and I don't have the root access. The git
> installed on the system is 1.5.2.2 and I want to upgrade it to 1.7.1

Ouch, you must be using a really ancient version of Fedora. Fedora 11 is the oldest release currently supported and it contains 1.6.2.5. 1.7.1 is in updates-testing for both Fedora 12 and 13.

Perhaps it's also worth mentioning for the archives that the fedora packages are designed to cleanly build in mock¹ for RHEL/CentOS >= 4 as well as previous Fedora releases.

¹ mock is fedora's main build tool, usable with little to no
  configuration on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora systems.

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