The question I'm asking is... "Why?" ... What does this get me that EPEL etc don't? Are these especially obscure packages? I mean, "zip" is in SL repo. "xpdf" is in EPEL... Wordnet is in SL repo etc. ..
-- James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Perkin Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 4:42 AM To: Elias Persson Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fwd: New binary package set for EL6 x86_64 * On 2014-07-11 at 09:02 BST, Elias Persson wrote: > On 2014-07-10 19:53, Yasha Karant wrote: > >I received the following email message that does not appear to be > >posted to the SL list. > > It's on the list: > http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1407&L=scientific-linux- > users&T=0&P=15184 > > The weird way it was sent (via another list?) and the fact that the SL > lists lack list-id and such probably cause any filter you might have > to miss it though. Sorry, my fault. I subscribed to a few different lists which I thought would be interested in this, and then sent one mail which bcc'd them - assuming that the list servers in question would handle the rest. Again, if you have any questions about this package set, I'd be delighted to answer them. I've had a few come in so far, so I'll take the chance to summarise them here: - You can browse the list of packages here: http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/Linux/el6/2014Q2/x86_64/All/ - They aren't in RPM format, but pkgsrc (the system used to build them) does have pluggable backend support, and there was an unfinished GSOC project to implement RPM support a few years back. If someone is interested it would be fantastic to see this finished so we can provide them as RPMs via yum instead. - pkgsrc is branched every 3 months, and from that we generate the binary packages and provide a new package set, so every quarter there is a fresh update of new packages. Cheers, -- Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com
