On Mon, 25 May 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Dag Wieers <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Robin Price II wrote:
For RHEL, I would highly suggest using both EPEL and RPMFUSION together.
They do not play nice with the Dag repo installed along side them. I
spoke
with Dag a while back regarding the conflicts I was having but I didn't
see
much interest to get things cleared up. Hopefully Dag follows the
mailing-list closely and can comment more on it.
There is no interest from the EPEL side either, which is a shame. When I
started I was basicly the only repository doing packages for Red Hat and
RHEL, that was somewhere in 2003.
Then when Fedora was born there was no interest within the Fedora community
to support a paid-for distribution even when the effort would have been
minimal. That was the main reason why with RPMforge we couldn't work
together with the Fedora project because our main focus was RHEL (and later
also CentOS).
There was interest, but there was not enough time/resources to do so.
Also when Fedora began the 'community' was rather non-existant as it
was an experiment on how Red Hat could keep up with new developments
while maintaining another OS for ~10 years. Later 'extras' were added
on as another step in the pool to keep things moving.
Stephen, there was no interest back then. Resources would not have been a
problem as we wanted to help with Fedora Extras as long as we could do the
same effort for CentOS/RHEL. You'd have a community 3 years before EPEL
who'd be focussing on RHEL/CentOS and would have started from a mix of
RPMforge and new Fedora packages.
But there was no interest in CentOS/RHEL and no interest to use macros to
use the same SPEC file for different distribution versions. It is ironic
that later they started doing the same for different Fedora versions (for
some packages).
I can back it up with fedora-devel threads, I'll do the research if you
like, but I doubt there's a lot to gain from it.
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-- dag wieers, [email protected], http://dag.wieers.com/ --
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