[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Infrastructure Package Management

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 10:27 -0700, Ryan Ordway wrote:
> 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. 
> 

Then help on the enterprise extras project that quaid (on irc) is trying
to get rolling.

please!

-sv