[rhelv6-list] ELRepo support for RHEL6

solarflow99 solarflow99 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 5 20:33:57 UTC 2010


Hi, nice work.  I see a lot of those packages exist in rpmfusion
already, is this supposed to different from epel?


On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> The ELRepo Project would like to announce support for RHEL6.
>
> http://elrepo.org
>
> The ELRepo Project is a 3rd party repository providing updated device
> drivers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), versions 5 and 6. ELRepo uses
> Red Hat's Driver Update Programme to facilitate the packaging of updated
> drivers (kernel modules) in the form of kABI-compatible kmod packages. The
> main advantage of this technique is that updated drivers will function
> seamlessly across kernel updates where kABI-compatibility is retained, thus
> drivers do not need to be recompiled against each new kernel update.
>
> ELRepo currently has a number of kmod packages available for RHEL6,
> including DRBD, ndiswrapper, NVIDIA graphics drivers and a number of updated
> vendor NIC drivers from Intel and Realtek. We are currently working on
> porting more packages from our EL5 tree.
>
> The ELRepo Project would welcome feedback from RHEL users, either on our bug
> reporting site or our mailing lists:
>
> http://elrepo.org/bugs
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/MailingLists
>
> Thanks.
>
> The ELRepo Team.
>
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