[CentOS-devel] Supercomputing 2008

Thu Nov 20 00:37:27 UTC 2008
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Brandon Davidson wrote:
> It sounds like we are all still waiting on Red Hat to release their 
> source packages on the FTP site. Due to the nature of the partnership, 
> Platform cannot provide us with the SRPMs - they have to come from RH. 
> It sounded like the folks at Platform might be able to poke some people 
> to make this happen at little sooner?

This is pretty much what my understanding is at this time. We need to
have the packages show up on ftp.redhat.com, and I think Lawrence and
LiMing have been chasing about that.

> Once this happens, the next step would probably be to set up an HPC 
> project and SIG on the CentOS website, and start building / testing the 
> packages. Once the packages look stable, perhaps a repo on the mirrors 
> would be appropriate?

yes, that too is what my understanding has been so far.

( lots of people on this CC list, most might already be on centos-devel :D )
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