On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 19:05 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > On 8/24/06, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:48 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 19:40 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > > 2. are the newer versions of those packages in fc5 not workable for us? > > > > > > > Some things like python had major version upgrades between fc3 and fc5. > > > At minimum, we would have to rebuild the fc5 packages on fc3 to account > > > for this. Some fc5 packages won't function with the older version at > > > all (such as bzr). > > > > true. But the first thing to get a handle on is what we need to be > > taking care of. > > > > > > > > > > 3. If fedora extras cvs started making it possible for us to build and > > > > release RHEL/Centos 4 packages is anyone interested in helping maintain > > > > a branch for that distro? > > > > > > > I can help maintain a branch for things we're working with in > > > infrastructure. I don't run RHEL or Centos here, though. > > > > we have configs for mock for centos. > > > > So you can easily build the package in there. I build some almost > > everyday. > > > > > > -sv > > I'll go ahead and ask the question. If I proposed a Fedora Project > called Fedora Enterprise or Fedora Enterprise Extras who here would > help me maintain it? I can help. I run both RHEL 4 and CentOS 4 on x86 and soon on amd64. > We could then merge Z00dax's current infrastructure and work with some > of Fedora's stuff. With quaid's help we might get some support/buy-in > from inside Red Hat. Operating completely independently of Extras or > with them. Perhaps one of the branch requests could be "RHEL4" or > "FEE4". (I'm not sure about how RH would feel about Fedora producing > RH branded packages). We can open it up to extras maintainers and > follow the same lifecycle of whatever branch we're creating. I'd be > happy to write up some guidelines do the administrative tasks and all > the overhead that would come along with a project like this. I'm not > kidding myself, this is a lot of work but, IMHO, I think there's a > real market out there not just inside of the FP Infrastructure. Hell yeah, I would love to be able to get "extras" for RHEL and CentOS. And I'm sure there are boatloads of other people that would as well. Ryan -- Ryan Ordway E-mail: ryan.ordway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Unix Systems Administrator rordway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Oregon State University Libraries 121 The Valley Library Office: The Valley Library #4657 Corvallis, OR 97331 Desk Phone: 541.737.8972
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