Contributing software to YDL

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Just trying to be helpful...

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:17, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> 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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