----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kkeit...@redhat.com> > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 10:30:53 AM > Subject: Re: how to withdraw glusterfs from epel? > > On 10/18/2013 10:09 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:03:28 -0400 > > "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kkeit...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > >> Okay, I'm okay with that. How about instead of a /etc/yum.repos.d/ > >> file if it's a /usr/share/doc/glusterfs.README containing > >> instructions for how to use the community GlusterFS yum repo? > >> > > > > Are you allowed make a people repo? > > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/ > > > > Like http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kkeithle? > > That's not what I want. > > My vision is to make it easy for (RH)EL users to find glusterfs. I > already experience lots of people who don't/can't find the repos we > already have on download.gluster.org or even my old fedorapeople.org repos. > > People install Fedora, yum {install,search} glusterfs, they're golden. > > Right now people who install RHEL (or CentOS), add EPEL, yum install > glusterfs, and get an outdated version of glusterfs (reasons it's > outdated already given previously). They're not golden. > > Soon, if I have to fully withdraw glusterfs from EPEL, they'll install > and get the client side gluster bits from the base RHEL channel. They're > semi-golden. > > But I think it's be a good thing if they did a yum search and saw a > glusterfs-community-doc package (containing the README) that that would > be a reasonable alternative to thinking they were stuck with only client > side or nothing. > > Or I just withdraw it completely and RHEL users will live mostly in the > dark until they find the community YUM repos by chance. (But I will add > that the nice people at CentOS are bending over backwards to add it to > their centos-extras repo and CentOS users who are looking for glusterfs > will have, IMO, a much nicer experience.)
Would it be against the guidelines to move to packaging it (the software itself, not a repo file) in Fedora/EPEL as glusterfs-community? Steve -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
