Dear Andrew.
(like the Contrib repo) are getting a bit clearer so I guess we are on the right track.
Contib repo !!! What Contrib repo ? The last time i tried to contribute i was told to head on to Fedora or rpmforge.
The Contrib repository has been re-invented in CentOS 5.3 but it's still not clear what it's for. From the official announce:
... Given the widespread requests for user contributed packages directly being hosted within the centos repositories, the contribs repository is now back with CentOS-5.3. There are no packages yet, but over the next few weeks we hope to have a policy and process in place that allows users to submit and manage packages in the contrib repo. ...
Karan started to line it out on this:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2009-August/004833.html
recent centos-devel thread.
Best Regards Marcus