On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote: >> I want up-to-dateish versions of TexLive, R, gnumeric, emacs, but on a >> more-or-less stable base of Centos-5.2. I asked for packages in this, >> but got no answers. So now I've built them and will let you try them >> if you want. I used the source packages from Fedora 8 and 9. > > > You might want to take a look at joining up with rpmrepo for > distribution of packages. Folks are (sometimes with good reason) > reluctant to use packages from individuals. Rpmforge/rpmrepo are > respected repositories, and you'll be able to take advantage of plenty > of developer expertise. > Thanks for the suggestion. I've gone to http://reprepo.org and find mostly "empty space" and links pointing nowhere. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas