Request to have a package rebuilt for the EPEL repository

[Itamar Reis Peixoto]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Ken Taylor <br549 at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> I hope this is the correct place to make this request. If not, please
> advise me of a better path.
>
> I needed to install the application recoll on CentOS 6.  There is no
> recoll package in the CentOS, RPMForge nor ELEL repositories.  I would
> like to report that I was able to rebuild the Fedora 14 recoll package
> and install the resulting binary successfully on CentOS 6  64 bit.  Here
> are the details:
>
> 1 - Built a "developer workstation" in VMWare
> 2 - Configured it to build rpm packages
> 3 - Downloaded recoll-1.15.8-2.fc14.src.rpm and attempted to build it
> 4 - Chased down a couple of missing pieces ( yum --enablerepo=epel
> install aspell-devel xapian-core-devel)
> 5 - Ran the rpmbuild again and it completed successfully
> 6 - Copied the newly built rpm (recoll-1.15.8-2.el6.x86_64.rpm) to
> another CentOS 6 - 64 bit VM
> 7 - Installed the new rpm - no errors nor warnings
> 8 - Ran my tests on recoll - IT WORKS LIKE A CHAMP!!!
>
> Please consider having this package rebuilt and added to the EPEL
> repository.  Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to
> assist in this effort.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Taylor
>
> p.s. I have installed the Fedora 13 recoll package directly on CentOS 6
> 32 bit. I believe that it or the Fedora 14 recoll package could also be
> rebuilt and added to the EPEL repository.  Please advise if I should go
> through the above process with CentOS 6 32 bit to confirm.
>

report a bug here.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugs/recoll

and  try koji to build packages

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