-----Original Message----- From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nkadel@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 20:48 To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Cc: Jason Pyeron Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Building help
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Jason Pyeron jpyeron@pdinc.us wrote:
We would like to help, I have many questions as to how we can help, but I will start with our agenda.
For 4 and 5 (and soon 6)
java apache tomcat php bind dhcp subversion And their dependencies.
[ I'm not one of the CentOS core maintainers, just an admin who's worked with all of these. ]
None of those are going to move ahead of "the upstream vendors" releases in the primary CentOS codeline, we can be sure. For
I think I was misunderstood. Our concern is to have the latest from the upstream vendor available as soon as possible. We run about 30-40 centos systems and about the same in RHEL, it is difficult when there are differences. Since we are not distributing, we often recompile (without modification) SRPMs and add them to our local yum repo as a stop gap.
Other times were are implementing a bugfix, or feature for a given customer, we know are way around the few packages we deal with every day.
I think it would be nice, if our efforts were in sync with this group and benefited everyone.
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Most of these updates are awaiting the CentOS 5.6 release.
This is where we would like to help, but how?
I do not know how much "testing" of installs we can do, but
building
and patching we can.
-Jason
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