On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 08:57 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > EPEL is meant to > provide rebuilds of Fedora packages as addons to RHEL and its cousins, > using the existing Fedora infrastructure. EPEL is meant to be far > less aggressive in terms of updates, since its targeting the > enterprise and its derivatives including the RHEL support timescale of > 7 years. For Astronomy for EPEL ... Not quite as new to the list, but lurking up till now. I do not understand why anyone from the Astronomy SIG would be rebuilding Fedora packages for RHEL. As I understand the model from the Astronomy SIG, it is to write SPECs and RPMs for Fedora, either of existing packages, or of new work; and also provide an Astronomy spin of Fedora - kickstart file(s) and .iso builds of a subset of Fedora, with all the packages that an astronomer would need. And ideally these spins could be put on a live CD with persistence. Oriented at rank amateurs (I just like to print out star charts for when I go camping with the boys), to professional astronomers. As I understand it, this is exactly the model for special interest groups in Fedora - get your software packaged and suitable for the repo, and/or create .ks and/or .iso file that include some subset of Fedora packages, including those specific to your SIG. I do not see where EPEL comes in. Wrolf _______________________________________________ Fedora astronomy mailing list Fedora-astronomy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-astronomy-list
