[fedora-india] What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/08/2009 08:10 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:

> 
> Anyway, I think I have learnt font packaging now (understood the spec
> file etc.) and would like to "upgrade". Can you please suggest a really
> really really simple package I could start with?? 
> 
> (I did go through the wishlist, Found all of them daunting :| )

Software is always going to involve more work on packaging compared to
fonts. However, look at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfchain

You can re-use

http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/srpm/pdfchain-0.99-1.fc10.src.rpm

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pvqt/

A spec and rpm can be found at

http://hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/panini/

There might be a few other simple ones at

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1211201#post1211201

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-May/msg00440.html

courier-imap and courier-authlib was asked a few times. They are fairly
involved but you can be sure you will get many users.

A dead review of courier-authlib is at

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208064

Feel free to reuse the spec file.

Someone from Pune LUG suggested

http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/enterpriseserver/i386/kinternet.html

Seems to be a KDE applet that shows live transfer rates and graphs. You
should be able to find a SRPM somewhere. If you are a KDE user, take a
look at this and talk to the Fedora KDE SIG.

Rahul