extras for RH9 / RHEL3 / CEntOS

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Fri Sep 24 23:30:05 UTC 2004


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:27:22 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:

> Erik LaBianca wrote:
> 
>  > [...]
>  > 1. Is an explicit RHEL extras repository planned? It seems like at least
>  > [...]
>  > 2. Some packages for FC2 (amavisd comes to mind) have dependencies on
>  > packages that are not included in rh9 or rhel, but have been included in
>  > [...]
> 
> RHL 9 is maintained by fedoralegacy, and RHL 7.3 too. They are old
> technology ;-)
> 
> 	[ http://fedoralegacy.org ]
> 
> and *Fedora* is _only_ for *Fedora* not for Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux.

Well, that's not entirely correct. Erik referred to Fedora.us
(http://fedora.us -- previously known as Fedora Linux), which had
started as an add-on packages project for Red Hat Linux and later has
continued to release extras for Fedora Core. Fedora.us still releases
updated extra packages for Red Hat Linux 9 and 8.0. Theoretically, it
would be possible to also prepare and build the extra packages for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux. But that has been--and still is--beyond the
scope and infrastructure of Fedora.us. First of all, it would need a
build system which can build for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, possibly
2.1 and 3. Second, it would need packagers who are interested in
creating unsupported extra packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and,
btw, maintaining them and possibly doing security fixes for a period
of seven years.

With Fedora.us moving into Fedora Extras, activity at fedora.us
will fade away and probably focus on continuing to release updates
for extra packages for Red Hat Linux 9 and 8.0. Probably just 9,
as I think with no Fedora Legacy support for 8.0, fedora.us should
announce extras-end-of-life for 8.0, too.

> There are several projects(clones) for RHEL, try it in:

Yes, and I think besides Dag Wieers, one or a few of those projects
also build extra packages.
 
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