[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Infrastructure Package Management

[Ryan Ordway]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 19:05 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 8/24/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:48 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 19:40 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > > 2. are the newer versions of those packages in fc5 not workable for us?
> > > >
> > > Some things like python had major version upgrades between fc3 and fc5.
> > > At minimum, we would have to rebuild the fc5 packages on fc3 to account
> > > for this.  Some fc5 packages won't function with the older version at
> > > all (such as bzr).
> >
> > true. But the first thing to get a handle on is what we need to be
> > taking care of.
> >
> >
> >
> > > > 3. If fedora extras cvs started making it possible for us to build and
> > > > release RHEL/Centos 4 packages is anyone interested in helping maintain
> > > > a branch for that distro?
> > > >
> > > I can help maintain a branch for things we're working with in
> > > infrastructure.  I don't run RHEL or Centos here, though.
> >
> > we have configs for mock for centos.
> >
> > So you can easily build the package in there. I build some almost
> > everyday.
> >
> >
> > -sv
> 
> I'll go ahead and ask the question.  If I proposed a Fedora Project
> called Fedora Enterprise or Fedora Enterprise Extras who here would
> help me maintain it?

I can help. I run both RHEL 4 and CentOS 4 on x86 and soon on amd64.

> We could then merge Z00dax's current infrastructure and work with some
> of Fedora's stuff.  With quaid's help we might get some support/buy-in
> from inside Red Hat.  Operating completely independently of Extras or
> with them.  Perhaps one of the branch requests could be "RHEL4" or
> "FEE4".  (I'm not sure about how RH would feel about Fedora producing
> RH branded packages).  We can open it up to extras maintainers and
> follow the same lifecycle of whatever branch we're creating.  I'd be
> happy to write up some guidelines do the administrative tasks and all
> the overhead that would come along with a project like this.  I'm not
> kidding myself, this is a lot of work but, IMHO, I think there's a
> real market out there not just inside of the FP Infrastructure.

Hell yeah, I would love to be able to get "extras" for RHEL and CentOS.
And I'm sure there are boatloads of other people that would as well. 

Ryan


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