YDL4 freshrpms.net packages

[Eddie Bindt]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Matthias Saou wrote:

Great work Matthias !!!
I was waiting for this for a long time, I did rebuild lots of packages 
myself but now I finally can switch to the "real" stuff !

E.

> Hi,
> 
> I've finally rebuilt most of my packages for Yellow Dog Linux 4.0. They're
> easily accessible through yum by simply adding :
> 
> [freshrpms]
> name=Yellow Dog Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
> baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
> gpgcheck=1
> 
> ...and if you keep the gpgcheck line, just run :
> rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt
> 
> The repository is also enabled with the new metadata used by yum 2.1.x, and
> also through apt/synaptic with :
> 
> rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/4.0/ppc freshrpms
> 
> Obviously, there are no main YDL 4.0 files yet, and if any libraries change
> in the final version, all affected packages will be rebuilt.
> 
> Last, some packages are still missing, most because of ppc specific
> compilation errors, and unfortunately this affects mplayer, xine and
> videolan-client... the only currently available fully-featured video player
> being totem built with xine-lib. If anyone wants to help out debugging
> these problems, please feel free to simply grab the source packages I have
> for Fedora Core 2 and debug/patch from there.
> 
> Browseable package tree here for the curious :
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/yellowdog/4.0/
> 
> Have fun!
> Matthias
> 
> 

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Eddie Bindt