[repo-coord] Publicly submittable repository

[Jeff Pitman]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 17:04, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> This sounds exactly like http://www.fedora.us/ and I think you should
> join there instead of starting up yet another repository :)

Unfortunately, given my scenario:

1. Laptop running Redhat 9.
2. Desktop running FC1 and soon FC2-test.
3. Cluster running Redhat 7.3 (24-hour non-stop running; so, no distro 
upgrades)

Case: Development on Laptop and/or Desktop of GUI to run on Cluster 
collecting data using the latest in PyGTK.

Why the latest PyGTK: Because 7.3/9/fc1 doesn't support threading out of 
the box and the SRPM recompiled with it enabled causes major problems 
(that's why it probably was disabled.)

Also, if I want python 2.3.3 on redhat 7.3, it means repackaging python 
and all supporting libraries using prefix naming.

What does fedora.us have to offer for my scenario? Do you think anyone 
there would listen to my needs?  And act?  If I need this, for now, I 
can probably only turn to third party repositories since they're more 
flexible and don't really have to deal with a slew of political 
hogwash.

To me, Dag, freshrpms, ATrpms, et al. *are* fedora-legacy without the 
insane political clashes.  Fedora.us is now Redhat.  What else can I 
say?

How about a nice, cleanly driven set of repositories without all of the 
political mayhem?  Apt and yum are already written to support multiple 
repositories, so why fight and try to create a monoculture? [Spare me 
the argument about trojan horses in upstream sources and rpms.]

take care,
-- 
-jeff