On Wednesday 30 June 2004 10:26, Michael Tiemann wrote: > /me notices that the names of all these packages do not follow the > fedora naming guidelines. Humpf. Moreover, there's also a comment > about a stuck dependency > ATrpms, and Dag repositories. As I depend heavily on these > repositories, I will not build for Fedora Core 2 until they do. > This is /precisely/ the kind of blockage I want to help resolve! Good luck. :-) I just noticed the listing in my repository config; just passing along information. I personally would love a 'scirpms' repository, and would love to see IRAF and AIPS++ in the stack... :-) > Since you just saw my self-intro, you know that I am new to the inside > of the sausage factory that is Fedora, though I am not new to Open > Source (I started writing the GNU C++ compiler in 1987). If you have > any advice on where I should start my campaign--either with Dag Wieers > and other foundational sites, the biorpm folks, the mailing list, or > whatever--I'd appreciate it. I'd certainly prefer to make my initial > application of energy a positive, rather than a negative, experience for > all. Your name is familiar to me, from a while back. Axel Thimm is on list here, and he has cc:ed the appropriate person. I'll just step back out of the way, and let the dialog continue.... - Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
