On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jaime Melis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > thank you all for your quick feedback. >> >> I think the reverse question is also true, are you available to be a >> maintainer for Fedora or EPEL? For software like this, it is much >> better if upstream is working on doing this as they can fix issues >> there versus a long game of pass the bug. > > Yes, absolutely. For example we work very tightly with the maintainer of the > Debian and Ubuntu packages (Damien Raude-Morvan). When he reports a bug or a > patch to improve the code we generally apply it upstream for the next > release, and we also provide testing. We intend to do the same with > EPEL. However, we would like the support of an EPEL maintainer, since it > takes time to learn procedures and to learn how to write *good* spec files. > Changing subject: > I've been trying to compile OpenNebula from source in RHEL 6 with EPEL 6 > enabled, but I haven't been able to do it, the problem, as always, is > xmlrpc-c. > To compile it we need the xmlrpc-c-devel package, which provides the '.h' > files necessary for compilation. Or, we can rebuild the xmlrpc-c package > from the 'src.rpm' but I haven't been able to find it. Why isn't it > provided in EPEL? > I believe the problem here is that I don't fully understand the workflow. > What I can't understand is how are other packages using the xmlrpc-c > package? since it only provides the dynamic libraries, they can't be used > unless the package has been compiled with the '.h' files, but those files > aren't provided with other epel packages so they can't be listed as build > dependencies.
I can't check for lack of access to RHEL6 but enable the "optional" repos that are configured in your yum configuration. Steve. > Regards, > Jaime > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 09:38, Jaime Melis <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I am part of the OpenNebula [1] team and we would like to include >> > OpenNebula >> > in EPEL. OpenNebula is in the process of becoming part of all major >> > linux >> > distributions. Our problem with the EPEL has been that we need the >> > package >> > xmlrpc-c to build OpenNebula and as far as I know xmlrpc-c is not >> > available >> > in EPEL. >> > Therefore I have some questions: >> > - Is there anyone interested in becoming maintainer of OpenNebula for >> > EPEL? >> >> I think the reverse question is also true, are you available to be a >> maintainer for Fedora or EPEL? For software like this, it is much >> better if upstream is working on doing this as they can fix issues >> there versus a long game of pass the bug. >> >> > - Is xmlrpc-c going to be included in EPEL 5? >> > - Is xmlrpc-c going to be included in EPEL 6? >> >> programs are included in EPEL when a maintainer wants to maintain it. >> We try to stay away from including software that we then have no one >> interested in fixing later. >> >> > - In case xmlrpc-c is going to be included in EPEL 6, is it possible to >> > start working on including OpenNebula for EPEL 6? >> > [1] http://opennebula.org >> > Thanks >> > Regards, >> > Jaime >> > >> > -- >> > Jaime Melis, Cloud Technology Engineer/Researcher >> > DSA Research Group: web http://dsa-research.org and blog >> > http://blog.dsa-research.org >> > OpenNebula Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing: >> > http://www.OpenNebula.org >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > epel-devel-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Stephen J Smoogen. >> "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." >> Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. >> "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard >> battle." -- Ian MacLaren >> >> _______________________________________________ >> epel-devel-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list > > > > -- > Jaime Melis, Cloud Technology Engineer/Researcher > DSA Research Group: web http://dsa-research.org and blog > http://blog.dsa-research.org > OpenNebula Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing: > http://www.OpenNebula.org > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list > > -- Steve Traylen _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
