On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:20:24 +0800 Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn <vanoudt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings all! welcome! > My name is Nicholas van Oudtshoorn - long time Fedora user, first time > (hopefully!) contributor. > > One of my jobs (apart from being a church pastor) involves taking > care of the IT systems for a local seminary here in Perth, Western > Australia. We've been running Fedora on our servers for several years > now - basically because it's the distro I find the most intuitive! > As part of my duties, I manage the seminary's library software - Koha. > Although this runs fine under Fedora, quite a few of it's > dependencies are not available in the Fedora repositories. Given the > number of libraries using koha (big and small - check out > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide ), I suspect > that rectifying this could be of some use! > > To this end, I've started packaging up build requirements. The first > package I've made (boy - it's more complex than it seems at first :-) > ) is for the Zebra database engine. After that, I'd like to work on > the perl packages that are missing. (CPAN is useful - but yum is *so* > much easier!) I'd also like to see about updating the yaz package. > (yaz is currently available in Fedora - but is quite a few versions > behind the upstream) > > Anywho - just thought I'd introduce myself. I've loved using Fedora > over the last years - and am excited about the possibility of giving > something back. Excellent. Welcome to the fun! kevin
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