relocatable packages ?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:46 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 15:30 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> 
> > 
> > And if we want to make this discussion on-topic by talking about
> > whether it would be possible to put together a set of nosrc.rpms for
> > popular commercial packages somewhere under the Fedora umbrella then
> > I'd be happy to join in.
> 
> I remember seeing something like that on the yum list a few months ago,
> though not Fedora specific I think they were suppose to work with Core
> 2. A group of uni sysadmins had several nosrc.rpm for lots of packages
> like Mathematica and matlab that they used for installation on their
> uni.
> 
> If I remember - they were hosted at duke, but I might be wrong.
> 

you weren't wrong.

everything is hosted at duke ;)

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/nosrc-rpm/

-sv