[CentOS] Re: You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

[Scott Silva]

on 7-25-2008 7:51 AM Paul Johnson spake the following:

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I want up-to-dateish versions of TexLive, R, gnumeric, emacs, but on a
more-or-less stable base of Centos-5.2.  I asked for packages in this,
but got no answers. So now I've built them and will let you try them
if you want. I used the source packages from Fedora 8 and 9.


You might want to take a look at joining up with rpmrepo for
distribution of packages. Folks are (sometimes with good reason)
reluctant to use packages from individuals. Rpmforge/rpmrepo are
respected repositories, and you'll be able to take advantage of plenty
of developer expertise.



Thanks for the suggestion.  I've gone to http://reprepo.org and find
mostly "empty space" and links pointing nowhere.



It is so empty it doesn't even point to an actual server. Did you mean 
http://rpmrepo.org/;-D




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[CentOS] Re: You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

[Scott Silva]

on 7-29-2008 12:29 PM Paul Johnson spake the following:

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Paul Johnson wrote:



There's no real process of getting your packages into CentOS at the
moment, rpmrepo is still "finding itself", so my advice would be to
offer those packages (and maintenance) to rpmforge, which will be in
rpmrepo once that is up. See . Getting it
in there also will help people with Scientific Linux or other
distributions.



People keep sending me to RPMforge, but apparently you don't go there
yourselves to see you are sending me nowhere.  Follow your advice:

https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/

Go to the 2nd section called "Packagers".  Click either of these:

Building RPMforge packages

Contributing RPM packages

Both links point to pages that have not yet been created.


If you look at the first line of the front page it says
"This is work in progress, if you are interested in joining the project please 
get on the mailing lists."


Actually it says "intested", but I had to fix the typo!  ;-P





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[CentOS] Re: You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

[Axel Thimm]

Hi Paul,

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:50:51PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I'm offering to share that back to you, but if you don't need it,
> that's fine.

regarding rpmrepo, we are still in infancy otherwise I'd say go on
submit the packages there! I'm sure many people will find your
packages useful!

At rpmrepo we did some serious thinking about how to please bleeding
edge *and* conservative users by offering different repo cuts that are
controlled by tagging (for example the conservative packaged R would
get a different tag than a more recent possibly incompatible or broken
version of it and the repo creation scripts would use that tag to
distinguish repo assignment).

We are not there yet, so as others have advised try submitting to the
merging-into-rpmrepo repos (too many "r"s, I guess :), and they will
land into rpmrepo eventually (with you as a maintainer). Or create
your own repo. Contact me off-list if you need online space.

You (and others, of course) can also help lifting rpmrepo into
production status by joining the mailing lists. We must admit that we
have been on hiatus for a while, but it's time to move on and anyone's
energy invested in there is greatly appreciated!

In a nutshell: Please submit your packages to one of the merging
repos, or setup your own and merge later into repmrepo yourself.
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