Fedora.us rebuild [Re: wiki at fedora.us]

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Tue Nov 16 21:59:23 UTC 2004


tir, 16.11.2004 kl. 22.47 skrev Per Bjornsson:
> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 15:54 -0500, Josh Bressers wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:43:01 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> > <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> > > Could somebody please do something about this:
> > > 
> > > - Fedora Core 3:
> > >         Coming soon
> > > 
> > > http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraSources#yum
> > 
> > It's a Wiki.  Anyone can change it, feel free.
> 
> Perhaps the real problem is that the directory that it should be
> pointing to - the Fedora.us "extras" RPM directory for FC3 - is still
> empty? ;) (With the mirror list stuff in Yum and up2date it seems pretty
> pointless to ask people to point Yum to the download.fedora.us site I
> think, so the only relevant link there would be the one for extra
> packages.) Look at http://download.fedora.us , the directory is there
> but there is nothing in it.)
> 
> Actually, what are the plans regarding a rebuild of Extras for FC3? In
> general I think the FC2 builds do work, but there are annoyances; e.g. 
> C++ packages typically need the compat-libstdc++ package since they are
> built against an older version of the C++ standard library. (Notably
> this is true for Inkscape, I discovered this when Inkscape just didn't
> start after my FC3 upgrade.) Sure I can just rebuild most SRPMs but
> isn't the point of having repositories that people can just point to
> them and install stuff? Is this stalling on getting the Red Hat build
> infrastructure for Extras in place?
> 
> Cheers,
> Per
> 

Oops. I have been looking in the rpms.os dir... But the extras is empty.
Damnit.




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