[CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Cox
Unless I've missed something (which is possible) there hasn't been any public progress announcements regarding rpmfusion in the past several weeks. Is there anything new to report? My ulterior motive is that I would love to have the convenience of a one-stop rpm shop for Centos/RHEL and Fedora,

Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 00:52 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: Unless I've missed something (which is possible) there hasn't been any public progress announcements regarding rpmfusion in the past several weeks. Is there anything new to report? My ulterior motive is that I would love to have the

Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:40:08 -0400 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RPMFusion has their own mailing lists; consider asking there. I did exactly that, before posting my question here. Didn't see anything that looked like a recent overall progress update. The last post to the

Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
Frank Cox wrote: Unless I've missed something (which is possible) there hasn't been any public progress announcements regarding rpmfusion in the past several weeks. Is there anything new to report? My ulterior motive is that I would love to have the convenience of a one-stop rpm shop for

RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Frank Cox wrote: Unless I've missed something (which is possible) there hasn't been any public progress announcements regarding rpmfusion in the past several weeks. Is there anything new to report? My ulterior motive is that I would love to have the convenience of a one-stop rpm shop for

Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Not to start a repo flame war, but for CentOS/RHEL, the repo that aims to be a one-stop rpm shop is EPEL. Of course it needs more contributors, but it has already ported a significant amount of FC6's old 'extras' repo over (FC6 - EL5). Ross, you are wrong on that front

RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Not to start a repo flame war, but for CentOS/RHEL, the repo that aims to be a one-stop rpm shop is EPEL. Of course it needs more contributors, but it has already ported a significant amount of FC6's old 'extras' repo over (FC6 - EL5).

Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs. Of course no repo can have it all. There are always the questionable items like closed source drivers and codecs which should be isolated.

RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs. Of course no repo can have it all. There are always the questionable items like closed source drivers and codecs

Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: You need to go back and workout what a real resourceful repo should / could / would have. If EPEL gives you all that, your' done. For a vast majority of the rest of us, it doesnt and the way their mandate works, it wont. This is a CentOS users list. It is for users

Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Bent Terp
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs. Assuming that all software ever needed by anybody exists in Fedora

RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: You need to go back and workout what a real resourceful repo should / could / would have. If EPEL gives you all that, your' done. For a vast majority of the rest of us, it doesnt and the way their mandate works, it wont. This is a

RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bent Terp wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs. Assuming that all software ever needed by anybody exists in

Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:38:49 +0100 Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rpmfusion never intended to support CentOS or any EL distro, they are very much Fedora centric, so you should go talk to them about it The very first line on the web page at http://rpmfusion.org says RPM Fusion is a

Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:24:40 +0100 Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And do any of those repo's listed there produce rpms for EL ? Even if they don't do it today, perhaps they are planning to start with the launch of rpmfusion. Or not. I'm just going on what the rpmfusion web page says,

Re: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
Frank Cox wrote: Is there anything new to report? (This question still hasn't been answered.) if you go ask on the Fedora lists and their own lists at rpmfusion, I am sure they will tell you :D Ignacio already did hint at what the situation was though. -- Karanbir Singh :