Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh

Frank Cox wrote:

Is there anything new to report?

(This question still hasn't been answered.)



if you go ask on the Fedora lists and their own lists at rpmfusion, I am 
sure they will tell you :D Ignacio already did hint at what the 
situation was though.


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Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:24:40 +0100
Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> And do any of those repo's listed there produce rpms for EL ?

Even if they don't do it today, perhaps they are planning to start with the
launch of rpmfusion.  Or not.  I'm just going on what the rpmfusion web page
says, and it says "Red Hat Enterprise Linux". 

> I know
> quite a few of the people who are involved in rpmfusion, some even 
> personally, and I wasent joking. They really were not considering EL at 
> all till they get the fedora stuff sorted and the decision at the time 
> was to reconsider a few years down the road.

That's not what their web page currently says.  However, in view of the fact
that you know quite a few of the people who are involved in rpmfusion (and I
don't), then you're a good guy to ask:

Unless I've missed something (which is possible) there hasn't been any "public
progress announcements" regarding rpmfusion in the past several weeks.

Is there anything new to report?

(This question still hasn't been answered.)

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Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh

Frank Cox wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:38:49 +0100
Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

rpmfusion never intended to support CentOS or any EL distro, they are 
very much Fedora centric, so you should go talk to them about it


The very first line on the web page at http://rpmfusion.org says "RPM Fusion is
a merger of the following package repositories for Fedora and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux ".



And do any of those repo's listed there produce rpms for EL ? I know 
quite a few of the people who are involved in rpmfusion, some even 
personally, and I wasent joking. They really were not considering EL at 
all till they get the fedora stuff sorted and the decision at the time 
was to reconsider a few years down the road.


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Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:38:49 +0100
Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> rpmfusion never intended to support CentOS or any EL distro, they are 
> very much Fedora centric, so you should go talk to them about it

The very first line on the web page at http://rpmfusion.org says "RPM Fusion is
a merger of the following package repositories for Fedora and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux ".

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RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bent Terp wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I
> > would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs.
> 
> Assuming that all software ever needed by anybody exists in Fedora

Of course it won't be, it never will, but what isn't can be obtained
either through, 1) building your own RPM, 2) downloading another
pre-built RPM, or 3) building from source in /usr/local.

The idea is to have a repo where the occurrence of such is at a
minimal.

-Ross

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RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> >> You need to go back and workout what a real resourceful repo should / 
> >> could / would have. If EPEL gives you all that, your' done. For a vast 
> >> majority of the rest of us, it doesnt and the way their mandate works, 
> >> it wont.
> > 
> > This is a CentOS users list. It is for users of CentOS to FREELY voice
> > their opinions on and about CentOS. If you don't like my opinion, fine,
> > but you have no right to tell me I am wrong.
> 
> But you are wrong, you claimed with authority that EPEL are trying to be 
> the everything-repo, which they are not and cant be. You are free to 
> voice an opinion, but if you are wrong, you are wrong.

If EPEL does not play with other repos and does not intend to,
then one can extrapolate from that they are intending or aiming
to be a one-stop repo.

Whether they are successful in that endeavor is left to the user
to decide.

-Ross

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Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Bent Terp
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Ross S. W. Walker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I
> would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs.

Assuming that all software ever needed by anybody exists in Fedora
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Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh

Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
You need to go back and workout what a real resourceful repo should / 
could / would have. If EPEL gives you all that, your' done. For a vast 
majority of the rest of us, it doesnt and the way their mandate works, 
it wont.


This is a CentOS users list. It is for users of CentOS to FREELY voice
their opinions on and about CentOS. If you don't like my opinion, fine,
but you have no right to tell me I am wrong.


But you are wrong, you claimed with authority that EPEL are trying to be 
 the everything-repo, which they are not and cant be. You are free to 
voice an opinion, but if you are wrong, you are wrong.


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RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I
> > would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs. Of
> > course no repo can have it all. There are always the questionable
> > items like closed source drivers and codecs which should be isolated.
> 
> Ross, you are obviously interested in the flames more than anything 
> else, and as Rex already pointed out in a hintting kind of way, lots of 
> us are no longer interested in that.

Then why are you still talking?

> You need to go back and workout what a real resourceful repo should / 
> could / would have. If EPEL gives you all that, your' done. For a vast 
> majority of the rest of us, it doesnt and the way their mandate works, 
> it wont.

This is a CentOS users list. It is for users of CentOS to FREELY voice
their opinions on and about CentOS. If you don't like my opinion, fine,
but you have no right to tell me I am wrong.

-Ross

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Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh

Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I
would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs. Of
course no repo can have it all. There are always the questionable
items like closed source drivers and codecs which should be isolated.


Ross, you are obviously interested in the flames more than anything 
else, and as Rex already pointed out in a hintting kind of way, lots of 
us are no longer interested in that.


You need to go back and workout what a real resourceful repo should / 
could / would have. If EPEL gives you all that, your' done. For a vast 
majority of the rest of us, it doesnt and the way their mandate works, 
it wont.



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RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > Not to start a repo flame war, but for CentOS/RHEL, the repo that aims to
> > be a one-stop rpm shop is EPEL. Of course it needs more contributors, but
> > it has already ported a significant amount of FC6's old 'extras' repo
> > over (FC6 <-> EL5).
> 
> Ross, you are wrong on that front - EPEL cant by definition be the one 
> stop shop as a repo. Thats the sort of thing that some of us are trying 
> to address with rpmforge, atrpms along with CentOS and SciLinux 
> developers contributing into the rpmrepo.org project. Once its off the 
> ground and functioning perhaps EPEL will like to join in, but thats 
> their decision.

If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I
would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs. Of
course no repo can have it all. There are always the questionable
items like closed source drivers and codecs which should be isolated.

Now I am not even going to touch the political/moral issue of whether
they SHOULD be a one-stop shop, I merely stated what they aim to be.

CentOS could develop it's own EPEL-like repo for it's 'extras' if
enough developers are willing to put in the time to develop and
maintain such a beast. There could be one for each release and
use the corresponding Fedora 'extras' repo as the base to build
off of.

Personally if my opinion matters for anything, which it most
probably doesn't, I have always felt that enterprise Linux repos
would be best served if they were maintained expressly for the
enterprise Linux they serve. That way compatibility and quality
assurance would be at the same level as the Linux they run on
and they can react faster to changes within the enterprise
Linux environment.

The bottom line in this whole discussion though is we all hate
repo overlap and I think if given the chance to pick one repo
that had almost all we were looking for we would pick that
one. I believe it is in that regard that Debian has it's
strength.

-Ross

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Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh

Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

Not to start a repo flame war, but for CentOS/RHEL, the repo that aims to
be a one-stop rpm shop is EPEL. Of course it needs more contributors, but
it has already ported a significant amount of FC6's old 'extras' repo
over (FC6 <-> EL5).


Ross, you are wrong on that front - EPEL cant by definition be the one 
stop shop as a repo. Thats the sort of thing that some of us are trying 
to address with rpmforge, atrpms along with CentOS and SciLinux 
developers contributing into the rpmrepo.org project. Once its off the 
ground and functioning perhaps EPEL will like to join in, but thats 
their decision.



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RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Frank Cox wrote:

> Unless I've missed something (which is possible) there hasn't been any "public
> progress announcements" regarding rpmfusion in the past several weeks.
> 
> Is there anything new to report?  My ulterior motive is that I would love to
> have the convenience of a one-stop rpm shop for Centos/RHEL and Fedora, and
> it's my understanding that's what rpmfusion is intended to be...

Not to start a repo flame war, but for CentOS/RHEL, the repo that aims to
be a one-stop rpm shop is EPEL. Of course it needs more contributors, but
it has already ported a significant amount of FC6's old 'extras' repo
over (FC6 <-> EL5).

I suspect that EL6 will be equivalent to F8 as F9 has just way too many
new technologies that will take 2 years or more to settle down to stable
technologies.


-Ross

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Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh

Frank Cox wrote:

Unless I've missed something (which is possible) there hasn't been any "public
progress announcements" regarding rpmfusion in the past several weeks.

Is there anything new to report?  My ulterior motive is that I would love to
have the convenience of a one-stop rpm shop for Centos/RHEL and Fedora, and
it's my understanding that's what rpmfusion is intended to be...



rpmfusion never intended to support CentOS or any EL distro, they are 
very much Fedora centric, so you should go talk to them about it


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Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:40:08 -0400
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> RPMFusion has their own mailing lists; consider asking there.

I did exactly that, before posting my question here.  Didn't see anything that
looked like a recent overall progress update.   The last post to the users list
was almost a month back and the developers list is mostly concerned with
individual packages and and not an overview.  Dribble is apparently fully
present and accounted for, but what of the other repositories?

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Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 00:52 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> Unless I've missed something (which is possible) there hasn't been any "public
> progress announcements" regarding rpmfusion in the past several weeks.
> 
> Is there anything new to report?  My ulterior motive is that I would love to
> have the convenience of a one-stop rpm shop for Centos/RHEL and Fedora, and
> it's my understanding that's what rpmfusion is intended to be...

RPMFusion has their own mailing lists; consider asking there.

(Spoiler: Too much work, not enough people)

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