On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 13:11, RB <[email protected]> wrote: > Regardless, I'll take the flag and see what I can do to get a > readily-accessible reasonably current build available for CentOS-5.
Good & bad news - the good news is the Fedora upstream is very responsive, the bad news is I got sidetracked after his response. I have been told that rsyslog cannot be put in EPEL since it is already packaged in RHEL, be that package good or bad. Tomas has offered to help with the SPEC should I have any problems, but it looks like we're on our own for the time being. RPM package distribution can be done to various depths. The simplest is to just provide both the SRPM and unsigned binary RPMs for a few chosen CPU architectures for each packaged release as an HTTP or FTP download. This would allow one-off installations (updates would be manual) and generally get the package 'out there' for use. Further steps would involve signing the binaries and possibly publishing a repo that users could subscribe to (using /etc/yum.* or equivalent) for automated updates. Distributing a binary package in whatever form is going to increase the load (however mildly) on the project - each release will involve compiling and distributing binaries and SRPMs, if not signing them as well. I can work with you [Rainer] to automate that process, but as a random user I should probably not be doing the compilation and signing myself. So, we have 4 basic questions: 1. What versions are desired? 2. Are there any rsyslog components or functionality not packaged in the Fedora distribution users here would like to see included? 3. Do we want to sign the packages? 4. Who will perform the compilation/signing? _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
