New Zenoss RPMs
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 28 21:26:23 UTC 2008
Christopher Blunck wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A month or so ago I posted to this list and asked a few questions about
> EPEL, RHX, and Fedora proper. I was trying to understand the repository
> structure and how things fit together. If you are interested in reading
> the discussion you can find it below:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00094.html
>
> The basic problem we discussed is that Zenoss requires Python 2.4, and
> since FC8 (and above) use Python 2.5 we elected to ship our own Python
> installation alongside our application. The recommended practice you
> all suggested was to rely on the compat-python24 package to provide
> /usr/bin/python2.4 and use that instead.
>
> I wanted to bring you all up to date with our efforts. We've moved
> ahead with your suggestion and have assembled a binary FC8 RPM (i386 and
> x86_64) that depends on compat-python24. I can provide our .spec and
> .tar.gz file, or I can provide a .src.rpm.
>
> What is the next logical step in the progression towards our inclusion
> in the EPEL repository? We're very excited about becoming official
> members of your community and would like to know what we need to do to
> be included in your group.
Assuming you are interested in maintaining the software package on a
continuous basis within EPEL, refer
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#head-0ea98f661aff25e65d3781c334473985a0e65f55
If you need help, feel free to ask here or in #epel IRC channel in
freenode.
Rahul
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