389 directory server stack for EPEL 6

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:22:27 -0600
Rich Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04/22/2011 01:04 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:40:05 +0100
> > Jonathan Underwood<jonathan.underwood at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I understand that the 389 directory server stack for EPEL6 hasn't
> >> been pushed due to the anticipation that 389 will be included in
> >> RHEL 6.1. However, i wonder if it would be possible to push the
> >> 389 stack to EPEL6 with an EVR such that when 6.1 is released the
> >> packages are upgraded from EPEL to the RHEL packages? The reason I
> >> ask is that it'll be a while before 6.1 releases of centos and
> >> scientific linux are released (given that rhel 6.1 is currently
> >> not released but in beta), and it would be nice to have a working
> >> 389 stack.
> > Well, I suppose, but that sure does sound like a lot of work. ;)
> >
> > Since they don't conflict now, they could be added, but when 6.1 or
> > whatever comes out with them in it, we would need to mark them all
> > dead.package, block them, etc.

> I'm the 389 maintainer.  I don't mind doing the work to create some 
> packages for EL6, but I don't want that work to be thrown away as
> soon as RHEL 6.1 is released.  I'd rather come up with some long term 
> solution that will work on EL6, EL7, etc.
> Any suggestions?  Note that certain solutions may be non-starters if
> the change to the package name or layout is too radical - changes
> that would make the docs obsolete or require massive changes, or make
> dependent packages such as freeipa or dogtag fail.

Yeah, I think I understand what you are looking for, but I'm not sure
EPEL is a good match. 

Perhaps something like http://repos.fedorapeople.org/ ?

You want something like a 'preview' or early adopters repo so folks can
get and test early before there are official packages right?

kevin
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