Hello,<div><br></div><div>thank you all for your quick feedback.</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
I think the reverse question is also true, are you available to be a<br>maintainer for Fedora or EPEL? For software like this, it is much<br>better if upstream is working on doing this as they can fix issues<br>there versus a long game of pass the bug.</blockquote>
</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Changing subject:</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br>Regards,</div><div>Jaime</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smooge@gmail.com">smooge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 09:38, Jaime Melis <<a href="mailto:j.melis@fdi.ucm.es">j.melis@fdi.ucm.es</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> I am part of the OpenNebula [1] team and we would like to include OpenNebula<br>
> in EPEL. OpenNebula is in the process of becoming part of all major linux<br>
> distributions. Our problem with the EPEL has been that we need the package<br>
> xmlrpc-c to build OpenNebula and as far as I know xmlrpc-c is not available<br>
> in EPEL.<br>
> Therefore I have some questions:<br>
> - Is there anyone interested in becoming maintainer of OpenNebula for EPEL?<br>
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</div>I think the reverse question is also true, are you available to be a<br>
maintainer for Fedora or EPEL? For software like this, it is much<br>
better if upstream is working on doing this as they can fix issues<br>
there versus a long game of pass the bug.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> - Is xmlrpc-c going to be included in EPEL 5?<br>
> - Is xmlrpc-c going to be included in EPEL 6?<br>
<br>
</div>programs are included in EPEL when a maintainer wants to maintain it.<br>
We try to stay away from including software that we then have no one<br>
interested in fixing later.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> - In case xmlrpc-c is going to be included in EPEL 6, is it possible to<br>
> start working on including OpenNebula for EPEL 6?<br>
> [1] <a href="http://opennebula.org" target="_blank">http://opennebula.org</a><br>
> Thanks<br>
> Regards,<br>
> Jaime<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Jaime Melis, Cloud Technology Engineer/Researcher<br>
> DSA Research Group: web <a href="http://dsa-research.org" target="_blank">http://dsa-research.org</a> and blog<br>
> <a href="http://blog.dsa-research.org" target="_blank">http://blog.dsa-research.org</a><br>
> OpenNebula Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing:<br>
> <a href="http://www.OpenNebula.org" target="_blank">http://www.OpenNebula.org</a><br>
><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jaime Melis, Cloud Technology Engineer/Researcher<br>DSA Research Group: web <a href="http://dsa-research.org" target="_blank">http://dsa-research.org</a> and blog <a href="http://blog.dsa-research.org" target="_blank">http://blog.dsa-research.org</a><br>
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