"JEC" == Jordi Espasa Clofent <sistemes.llistes at intergrid.cat> JEC> Hi all, I've always used kb, dries and dag's repos in JEC> CentOS 4.x. JEC> Now I'm testing CentOS 5.x (congratulation for your great JEC> work!) and I wonder if the three popular repos called JEC> above are available/compatible for CentOS 5. Note that another option is/will be the Fedora EPEL (``Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux''), which is supported by the Red Hat/Fedora infrastructure, and plans on rebuilding packages from Fedora Extras for RHEL/CentOS 5. There are still a bunch of issues being hashed out in terms of the naming of the packages (whether or not they'll have a repotag); whether they're going to be building one set of packages and maintaining those versions until the particular enterprise Linux version is retired or build packages from the latest set of Fedora packages (as Extras is supposed to be being rolled into Fedora proper); and, of course, exactly how EPEL will relate to the other, existing, repos that have been supporting enterprise Linux releases. Their wiki starts at <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>, and there's a reasonably active mailing list. I'm hopeful that they'll do things in a way that will relieve at least some of my local package building responsibilities and will do so in a way that allows me to also use other repos where I need to (to provide support for things such as MP3s and DVDs that Red Hat/Fedora won't/can't provide). Thus far, however, I think it's too early to tell. I know that Dag and Karanbir both participate in the list (I'm making no claims for their satisfaction with how things are going so far). Axel Thimm, who's a Fedora developer who also runs a third-party repo, is also very active with EPEL. Claire *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire Connelly cmc at math.hmc.edu Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754 Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20070503/e5c2a030/attachment-0007.sig>