On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 10:27 -0700, Ryan Ordway wrote: > 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. > Then help on the enterprise extras project that quaid (on irc) is trying to get rolling. please! -sv
