rpms that just need a rebuild...

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 07.03.2007 07:52, Greg Swallow wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 07.03.2007 07:03, Greg Swallow wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> But I was wondering if there is room in the plans for a 
>>> "EPEL-unstable" repository (or something like that), which is just an 
>>> automatic rebuild of Fedora Extras 6 packages.  For instance I need 
>>> ~15 php-pear-??? rpms for EL5 that I just rebuilt from the Fedora 
>>> Extras 6 sources - no modifications to the spec files needed. 
>> My 2 cent: It would IMHO make a lot more sense to have a second repo 
>> that replaces stuff from the base or installs newer versions of gtk2 
>> in parallel to the one from the base; that would allow to ship newer 
>> version of other programs that depend on newer system library, too.
>> But I'd say EPEL should focus on bringing up the main repo that 
>> doesn't replace stuff now before thinking about thinks like that. And 
>> the Fedora project is probably not the best place for this effort, too 
>> -- but I'm optimistic that there will soon be another project where 
>> this will be fitting in (more news to come, just be a bit patient for 
>> some weeks).
> I wasn't suggesting replacing stuff in the base at all,

I know.

> I just thought 
> having more packages from Extras (all that will just rebuild without 
> changes) available right away for EL5 would be nice, whether it is 
> sponsored by Fedora or a 3rd party.

Ohh, okay, then I got your wrong (I thought you wanted to constantly and 
automatically rebuild FE6 for EPEL5).

My idea is to have most of Fedora Extras 6 packages available for EPEL5 
soon. But it's not a automatic rebuild -- remember, someone has to 
maintain the stuff for quite some time, so we'll only build packages 
that have EPEL-maintainers. But I'm optimistic that with this way and a 
bit of co-maintainership we should be able to have most of FE6 available 
in EPEL5 soon.

CU
thl