Re: RHEL "extras" site?

[Al Tobey <albert tobey priority-health com>]

I would love to see something like this.  The alternative is a lot of
duplicated effort.   The availability of an "unsupported, but community
tested" repository of RPMs could even provide benefit to Red Hat in the
form of less complaining about missing stuff (I'm guilty) and feedback
as to what augmentations us customers desire.

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:03, D Canfield wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone here is interested in collaborating on a
> site/repository for "unsupported" packages on RHEL.  Ideally, I'd like
> to do more than just "here's a bunch of recompiled Fedora RPM's." In
> addition to having a set of RPMS's that are continually improved with
> RHEL in mind, I'd like to facilitate discussion/notes on these packages
> to cover things like why you might not want to upgrade a package, what
> the gotchas might be, what makes a piece of software more/less
> attractive to Red Hat for official inclusion, etc.  
> 
> If there end up being a lot of packages that are just re-rolls from
> Fedora, that's great (and wouldn't it be great if that level of
> compatibility continues), but even then I think it could still be a
> valuable resource just from a "peace of mind" standpoint... if I know
> other people are using these Fedora RPMS on RHEL, I'd probably feel more
> comfortable with them on my systems, for example.  
> 
> Is anyone on this list interested in collaborating on such a project, or
> is there already a similar resource that I'm overlooking (perhaps via
> Fedora)?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> DC
> 
> 
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