[CentOS] PERL module woes

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 03:19, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:04 -0400, Kurt Hansen wrote:
> 
> > > I was also concerned that Red Hat would balk at supporting other parts
> > > of my systems if I had deviated from the supplied software. So, it
> > > didn't seem I would be getting any value for my thousands.
> > 
> > Yeah. If you don't require the support, it is a shame to waste that
> > money.
> 
> Centos is the answer to a lot of problems.  Just not this one
> unless someone were to say, rebuild the fedora FC5 versions of
> apache, perl, and mod_perl under Centos and put it in a yum
> repository somewhere in a way that updates would push
> through for people who want them.

Exactly, and I think we have to 'evolve' from a set of fixed repositories 
(in CentOS or RPMforge) to a dynamic range of 'appliance' repositories 
that build on top of the base OS and can be used next to the official 
repositories.

They may replace (update) core packages or fix things that are known to be 
broken to many people. If CentOS (wiki?) is able to funnel and manage 
something like this, I'm sure lots of the same cause-inflicted pain can be 
transformed into a community of appliance repositories.

If only there would be a good RPM build tool that provide conformance 
testing with simplicity.

Kind regards,
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