request packages to be added to repos?

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

Clint wrote:
> How do we go about requesting packages to be available via yum on 
> repositories?
> 
> LilyPond is a music typesetting package that is really sweet, but (while 
> it wasn't hard to install with rpm's) not available on any of the usual 
> yum repo's -- unless I've missed it somehow!
> 
> Clint
> 
> 

What I have done, is first having a good /etc/yum.conf on a mirror near 
me. Also I have the Fedora iso's on disc and mount them like:
mount -t iso9660 yarrow-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/disc1 -o loop -r
mount -t iso9660 yarrow-i386-disc2.iso /mnt/disc2 -o loop -r
mount -t iso9660 yarrow-i386-disc3.iso /mnt/disc3 -o loop -r
Then I have done
$ cd /mnt/disc1/Fedora/RPMS
$ ls >/tmp/t
$ ex /tmp/t
:1,$s/^/rpm -pql /
:wq
$
$ sh -x /tmp/t 2>&1 | tee <somewhere>/1

Now I have a complete index in file 1 and can 'rpms -hiv' any file from 
the mounted disc1. Perhaps I look for the vim packages, as follows:

$ grep vim ? | grep +
1:+ rpm -pql vim-common-6.2.121-1.i386.rpm
1:+ rpm -pql vim-enhanced-6.2.121-1.i386.rpm
1:+ rpm -pql vim-minimal-6.2.121-1.i386.rpm
2:+ rpm -pql vim-X11-6.2.121-1.i386.rpm


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