I like the copr (Cool Other Package Repositories) direction, and agree with Matt's comment that it would be great to see Fedora/CentOS collaboration in this area. The general points are that - * users will occasionally have a need for newer versions of software than are officially supported by redhat * making newer software versions available in a single repository (e.g. centos-plus) quickly becomes messy because users may not want/trust every new thing in that repository, and then they have to use includepkgs/excludepkgs in yum repo definitions to limit what they see. It's cleaner/easier to add/remove repos. * in most cases, these newer software versions are not distro specific, i.e. they will work across rhel, centos, scientific, oracle, .... * t'would be a shame to end up with two slightly different ways of accomplishing similar goals (coprs for fedora/epel, SIG repos for centos). But I'm just one voice... > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-devel- > bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Miller > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:27 PM > To: The CentOS developers mailing list. > Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Creating a CentOS-only package > > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:59:02PM -0700, Kay Williams wrote: > > Perhaps an 'epel-plus' repo would make sense (someday)? Or an epel > > service for hosting misc repos for newer-than-rhel packages. > > You could use Fedora's Copr service for exactly this -- it can build > against EL 5, 6, and 7. > > Basically, you just upload SRPMs, check what you want to build against, > and a usable repo comes out. See http://copr.fedoraproject.org/ or this > blog post http://bkabrda.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/introducing-copr- > build-system/ > . The only restrictions are that it has to be open source and legal for > Fedora to distribute. > > In Fedora, there are some dnf (experimental branch of a next-generation > yum) plugins which make searching easier, and work on a "Playground", > an aggregated set of coprs that agree to play nicely together. Some of > that could happen for CentOS as well with yum plugins (I don't think > there's really anything special about dnf here it just happens that > that's what was > made.) > > > > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org > <http://mattdm.org/> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel