Re: A Volunteer For Making RPMs

Subject: Re: A Volunteer For Making RPMs
From: Darron Froese (darron@froese.org)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 22:33:45 MDT

Ken,

You can always just make updated rpms of software that you use frequently.

I've been doing that and have a fair amount of them posted here:

http://ftp.froese.org/
ftp://ftp.froese.org/

I just made them from whatever YDL src rpms I could find and/or other src
rpms from other distros. 

--
Darron
darron@froese.org
----- Original Message -----

From: <schwing@traverse.net>
To: <yellowdog-devel@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:16 AM
Subject: A Volunteer For Making RPMs

> I would like to volunteer to help make RPMs for YDL.  I've made a
> couple RPMs that I didn't find a ppc port for on rpmfind.net, but I
> think I could be of better use if I helped "maintain" updated
> versions.  I see a lot of requests for the newest version of ___.rpm
> on the general list.
>
> I could build/update the spec files, patch files and provide the
> src.rpms for download.  I'm not sure what procedures are in place
> to do this, though.
>
> Is there a list available of packages that are waiting to be
> updated? or packages that need to be started?
>
> I guess the real question would be how and where to start?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Ken "wanting-to-get-involved" Schweigert
>

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