Yum repros wanted

[Arthur Pemberton]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Temlakos wrote:
>
>> Well, /somebody/ has to meet the other one halfway! All that I see on 
>> the extras site is that they want us to encourage the /developers/ of 
>> the applications or other packages involved to /submit their packages 
>> to extras/ for inclusion. Or they encourage /us/ to submit the 
>> packages to extras. /Not one word/ do they speak about coordinating 
>> their efforts with those of men like Dag and Axel.
>
>
> Many of the packages in Extras started life as SRPMs from other repos 
> such as Dag's and Axel's. It would be great if Dag & Axel would submit 
> their own packages for inclusion in Extras too.
>
>> I'd go along with using extras exclusively, except for one thing: 
>> Extras never has had the selection that Dag and Axel have had.
>
>
> This will change. There are currently (I believe) 100 different people 
> maintaining packages in Extras, and this number is growing. It's only 
> a matter of time before Extras is the single biggest repo in terms of 
> different packages available. However, Dag, Axel et al also maintain 
> packages for non-Fedora distros such as RHEL, and I doubt that Extras 
> will go that way (though I've seen a lot of Extras packages rebuilt 
> for Centos in other places).
>
> > The head of
>
>> extras can speak for himself, of course, but the impression I have is 
>> that the "quality control" process even to /get/ a package into 
>> extras takes longer than the typical release cycle of Fedora.
>
>
> There's an extensive review process for getting a package into Extras 
> in the first place, but once it's in, changes can be made pretty 
> quickly. In fact the only real holdups are the build system (which is 
> very busy and undergoing some changes at the moment) and the manual 
> package-signing process (which will always be a manual process for 
> safety's sake). Additionally, there's the fedora-extras-commits list 
> (which every Extras maintainer is supposed to be on), where every cvs 
> commit in the entire repository is sent. There's potentially a lot of 
> eyeballs there to spot any mistakes that get introduced, which has to 
> be good.
>
>> Extras did surprise me when, the first time I configured my system 
>> (back in FC3) to use extras, I got twenty-two updates of packages 
>> (like anjuta) that I had installed from dag or at-stable or freshrpms.
>
>
> I was quite surprised by that too. I maintain my own local repo and 
> there were a fair number of newer versions of those packages in 
> Extras. I no longer bother building the FC3/FC4 versions of my own 
> packages that are in Extras (unless they appear to be not as actively 
> maintained as I'd like :-))
>
> Paul.
>
If someone would put out an easy to follow howto , or better yet an app 
or script to help build rpms, i'd be MORE than happy to build and submit 
rpms.