<br><br><b><i>Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala <zen@allegro.pl></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Friday 28 September 2007 02:14:30 mark pryor wrote:<br>> hello,<br>><br>> Does our beloved Centos project have a page where one can request that an<br>> RPM package be built, especially for C5? How about alerts when those<br>> requests have been satisfied?<br>><br>> I know about 3rd party repos like rpmforge, epel, and kbextras. I can<br>> search those in YUM.<br>><br>> Centos seems to have specialized as a server OS in the past, but my<br>> experience is that it is an up and coming desktop/workstation OS too. Many<br>> folks might like to see packages built that are more Desktop oriented,<br>> which are not available in upstream, nor in the 3rd party repos.<br>><br>As you may know, CentOS is strictly following upstream, e.g RHEL, and this
<br>simple rule is it's biggest strenght. I'm affraid that the only way to <br>provide extra packages is through 3rd party repos. From rpmforge <br>website: "Apart from reporting problems, you could request other useful tools <br>and programs to be added. Or even better, send us a working package that we <br>can build on."<br><br>Regards,<br>-- <br>Tomasz Napierala<br>System Administrator<br>Allegro Team<br>http://www.allegro.pl/<br><br></blockquote><br>oh, only today I came upon this<br>http://wiki.centos.org/HowToContribute/Packages<br><br>its the official word about requesting or submitting packages.<br> --<br>Mark<br><p>
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