On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Eric Yang <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm interested in exploring this direction. Do you know who at Apache >> we (Bigtop) >> have to talk to in order to figure out the logistics of building rpm/deb's >> and >> hosting Apache-blessed yum/apt repos? > > There is no Apache-blessed yum/apt repos. > We should be able to set one up, if projects are interested and donate > servers.
So far efforts of *targeted* H/W donation have not had any traction with Apache. If you can help with that directly -- please follow up with practical recommendations (either on-list or off). If not -- this is an academic discussion at best and the current status quo is that Apache Foundation does NOT host yum/apt repos, nor, to the best of my knowledge does it have any desire to do so in the near future. >> Are you saying stripping and possibly repacking debug info constitutes >> linking to GPL licensed code? > > This is a grey area. It would be up to lawyer's interpretation. See: > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation I fail to see the applicability, but then again -- I'm not a lawyer. That said, if anybody on this list (especially the mentors!) feel like this is something we should consider -- I'd love to have a practical discussion. >> I understand these points, but my question was different -- where can I get >> Apache-released RPM/DEBs for these projects? > > Wait for the project to release. I believe Hadoop 0.20.204.0 will have the > first RPM package. Well, in that case -- the answer to my initial question is -- no. There's NO place where I can currently get the binary distributions of these community produced packages. Which is a fine answer, by the way. Thanks, Roman.
