EPEL report week 29 2007

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week29

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 29/2007

== Most important happenings ==

* RH will plans to add stuff that is part of the EL5Client (like
python-imaging) to the Channels for EL5Server; that should solve most of
our problem on that topic

== EPEL SIG Meeting ==

=== Attending ===
> From the Steering Committee:

* dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
 * Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren) (had to leave after half the meeting)
 * mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
 * nirik (KevinFenzi) (had to leave early)
 * quiad (KarstenWade)
 * stahnma (MichaelStahnke)

Missing from the Steering Committee:

* knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)

Others that participated the meeting:

=== Summary ===

* broken Deps - Jeff_S

* still lots of broken deps

*  nirik> I've found that if you mail maintainers direct with a
solution, most of them will do something... I can try and do that some
in the next few days.

* more on the list

* branch for EPEL if Fedora Maintainer does not react

*
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00104.html
not yet ratified as tehre were not enough people to vote

* early end of meeting due to the latter fact

=== Full Log ===

https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00164.html

== Stats ==

=== General ===

Number of EPEL Contributors 112

We welcome 2 new contributors: kwizart_AT_gmail.com, mattdm_AT_mattdm.org

=== EPEL 5 ===

Number of source packages: 469

Number of binary packages:  853

There are 7 new Packages:
 * cacti | An rrd based graphing tool
 * ctapi-common | Common files and packaging infrastructure for CT-API
modules
 * ftgl | OpenGL frontend to Freetype 2
 * goffice | Goffice support libraries
 * iksemel | An XML parser library designed for Jabber applications
 * logserial | Package for logging incoming bytes on asynchronous serial
ports
 * rdiff-backup | Convenient and transparent local/remote incremental
mirror/backup
 * tachyon | Parallel / Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System

=== EPEL 4 ===

Number of source packages: 289

Number of binary packages:  596

There are 5 new Packages:
 * ctapi-common | Common files and packaging infrastructure for CT-API
modules
 * iksemel | An XML parser library designed for Jabber applications
 * logserial | Package for logging incoming bytes on asynchronous serial
ports
 * rdiff-backup | Convenient and transparent local/remote incremental
mirror/backup
 * tachyon | Parallel / Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System

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[Rahul Sundaram]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> === EPEL 5 ===
>
> Number of source packages: 469
>
> Number of binary packages:  853

The count here is different from the number of indexed packages at 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/index.html. 
Why is that?

Also shouldn't this report also include a section on EPEL 4?

Rahul

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 22.07.2007 15:04, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > === EPEL 5 ===
> >
> > Number of source packages: 469
> > Number of binary packages:  853
>
> The count here is different from the number of indexed packages at 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/index.html. 
> Why is that?

Afaics this is the reason:

repoview (icon, please correct me if I'm wrong) counts all packages in
the repo which sometimes includes old versions -- E.g. the wine package
for example is counted twice, because 0.9.39-1.el5 and 0.9.41-1.el5 are
in the repo. See
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/wine.html

My script uses repoquery and counts only the latest version of a package
(e.g. I don't use "--show-dupes").

Both approaches IMHO make sense for their purpose. Sure, I could use
"--show-dupes" as well, but the number would be a bit misleading IMHO.
> Also shouldn't this report also include a section on EPEL 4?

Hmmm, it's part of it afaics.

Cu
thl