Contributing software to YDL
Daniel Gimpelevich
daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Wed Jan 5 12:17:02 MST 2005
I'm aware of that. I didn't intend to demand anything, just pointed out
that it would be nice to have these things yummable. I see nothing
wrong with anybody proposing any kind of wishlist. Matthias says he'd
rather not provide updates to packages in the distro, and I can respect
that. I merely thought he'd be doing so because he did it for a number of
packages in YDL3.
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:26:26 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> Fetch the SRPM from the creators:
>
> http://www.xmms.org/files/1.2.x/rpm/xmms-1.2.10-1.src.rpm
>
>
> It builds and works just fine.
>
> -Joseph
>
>
> =============================================
>
> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 12:53, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
>> How about a working XMMS? The one in YDL4 segfaults on startup. It would
>> also be nice to yum install a 2.6.10 kernel with all the proper patches
>> whose .config doesn't contain DMASOUND or DMASOUND_PMAC but does contain
>> ALSA OSS emulation, with an /etc/modprobe.conf file to match.
>>
>> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:06:54 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
>>
>> > Geert Janssens wrote :
>> >
>> >> I need a package on my system that I can't find in the YDL or FreshRPMS
>> >> yum repositories. Those I then build myself, and since I try to keep a
>> >> consistent system, I usually make RPMs of what I've built.
>> >>
>> >> In other distro's like Mandrake, I have noticed there usually is
>> >> something like a contrib repository, with user contributions.
>> >>
>> >> Does something similar exist for YDL ? I mean is there a place I can
>> >> upload the RPM's I've built so other YDL users can use them too ?
>> >
>> > There is unfortunately no such mechanism for YDL that I know of. Maybe if
>> > some day YDL also includes all or part of Fedora Extras, then that's the
>> > place where to contribute, and also send ppc-specific changes.
>> >
>> > As for freshrpms.net packages, I'm always open to suggestions and fixes. I
>> > already share build files with other packagers (Dag Wieers most notably),
>> > so any package that can be found in the svn repository below and that
>> > builds for you on ppc can be trivially added to my YDL repository. Of
>> > course, any ppc specific fixes to be included are also very welcome.
>> >
>> > http://svn.rpmforge.net/
>> >
>> > Matthias
>>
>>
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