Jeff Sheltren wrote: > On Jul 8, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> On 07.07.2007 16:32, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: >>> I for one am 100% in favor of including them in EPEL. At least because >>> RH5 uses yum. > >> +1 (except centos-yumconf of course) > >> But we should not create trouble for CentOS, so I'm in favor of this, >> what was said somewhere else in this thread: > >> On 07.07.2007 22:58, Steven Pritchard wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:47:25PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: >>>> But then EPEL conflicts with Centos. >>> Why not just track their package with a lower Release? > >> CU >> thl > > > I have rebuilt the following packages by using those included in CentOS > 4.5 and prepending a '0' to the release tag (and in some cases, adding a > dist tag): > createrepo > python-elementtree > python-sqlite > python-urlgrabber > sqlite > yum > > For the yum package I also made a change to the yum.conf file which gets > installed so that it looks at redhat-release instead of centos-release. > CentOS users should not be installing these packages due to the lower > release number, so this should work nicely to allow RHEL 4 users to > install yum if needed. > > I've put all the SRPMs here: http://www.sheltren.com/epel/packages/ > The sha1sums can be found in sha1sums.txt signed with my gpg key. > > If these packages look good to everyone, I'm willing to coordinate with > the Fedora maintainers to get these into EPEL. If the maintainers don't > want to maintain the package in EPEL, I am willing to co-maintain them > in EPEL (or have someone else do it if anyone's interested). > > Thoughts, questions, comments? > > -Jeff I would like to take the opportunity to publicly thank Jeff and Mike McGrath for discussing this issue with the CentOS developers. The CentOS devels think that this is a great solution to the problem. Since I have complained loudly on this list for the lack of collaboration in the past, I figured I should also praise a good effort too. Thanks, Johnny Hughes CentOS Developer
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