On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 08:37 -0600, Richi Plana wrote: > Personally, if I can't find a repository with an RPM > package for software I want installed, I write my own spec file (with > the tools provided in the rpmdevtools package) and rpmbuild my own. I'd go a little further than that. If there's something I need which isn't in Fedora or Livna, then I'll consider packaging it myself and _putting_ it there. I wouldn't pull packages in from various other arbitrary repositories. Stuff that's in Livna has a good reason for not being in Fedora, and other than that, Livna is handled with the same packaging rules that Fedora is. I've never quite seen the reason for the existence of the other repositories, to be honest. Especially those which replace Fedora packages. Admittedly, I do it myself to a certain extent -- I have a private repository with slightly improved versions of evolution and openssh, and although I periodically attempt to get my patches upstream it's taking a very long time to get there. But I don't actually go out of my way to encourage other people to use my repository. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
