On 09/04/2011 05:36 PM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 11:15 -0400, Steve Huff wrote: > >> as a matter of policy, we avoid building packages that depend on other >> packages that are not available in the upstream distribution. we can >> look into upgrading libmodplug and libupnp; > > I have recently updated libmodplug to be EPEL compatible, but Dag deemed > it to be too much of an effort to rebuild everything that depends on it > in the repo ;-( > > The libupnp issue was so far unreported, but I am not very much > motivated to look into this if it's not going to be rebuilt anyway :-( > > Maybe worth opening a ticket at github though... >
First of all, this was reported in CentOS facebook group by one of the members. I offered him workaround and then wrote original mail. I have priorities in place, and EPEL is first below base repos. There is no way I am going to step down from this approach. I actually mirror and use some ~15 repositories (Repoforge has some 3-4, atrpms 3, etc.) and beside that I also have my own repository. I was hoping that finally RepoForge could be used as a default complement to base repos and EPEL (absolute default in my opinion). I guess I will have to do same thing I did for EL5 repos, select packages from various repos into plnet-downloaded, and compile the rest by myself. The idea is to form Desktop spinoff of CentOS 6. I spoke with KB very shortly about this, and, in general, there is possibility to be supported by CentOS project (more detailed conversation pending). Spinoff would use Base and EPEL repos as a default, enlisting Fedora maintainers to build conservative/stable versions of available fedora packages, and then have "add-on" and "replace" repositories with packages not supported by EPEL and/or with complicated dependency like Audio/Video apps. The goal is not to have latest and greatest. I how be content to have stable versions of desired apps on CentOS 6. This could make CentOS/EL 6 very popular for desktop use, securing stability. And if you take a look at the number of packages already in Fedora, only waiting to be recompiled, you can not deny potential value of EPEL and it's maintainers. I am currently busy reinstalling my main (Desktop) system with CentOS 6 and building all missing packages using src.rpms mostly from Fedora. So far I have build and using following packages: 1 Firefox 6.0.1 from Remi 2 Thunderbird 6.0.1 from Remi 3 gnome-netstatus-2.28.1-1 Fedora (network applet - not NetworkManager) 4 Krusader 2.3.0 Fedora 5 MythTV 0.24.1 from RPMFusion (using stock QT but so far missing mythweather ) 6 libxklavier for Fedora (avoid crash of gnome-setting in NX session) 7 Wine 1.3.24-1 from Fedora I also Accumulated packages like jre, VirtualBox, Skype, etc. into "downloaded" repo so I do not have to install them manually. This is why it would be nice if EPEL would be referenced when compiling RepoForge. If that is not met, then I will have to revert to "build my own" system. Either way, I am appreciative of the work you are doing here. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
