[CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

Tue Jul 29 22:22:14 UTC 2008
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:18 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>>
>> Nobody could be aware that you do not know about rpmforge and know your
>> way yourself.
>>
>> -> https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using
>>
>> We all use it, we (most of us) do not package for it. rpmforge is one of
>> the biggest repos for RHEL, if not the biggest. ...

Probably the most trusted, of the 3rd party repositories.

> thats great, but they really ought to fix the certificates on that
> rpmrepo.org site, or stop using https
>
> Secure Connection Failed
>   rpmrepo.org uses an invalid security certificate.
>   The certificate expired on 07/29/08 12:11 PM.
>   (Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate)
>       * This could be a problem with the server's configuration, or it could
> be someone trying to impersonate the server.
>       * If you have connected to this server successfully in the past, the
> error may be temporary, and you can try again later.
>
> that doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
> ___________________________________
Of course it does not inspire confidence, but the site is *BRAND NEW*.
Cut them some slack,  for 2 or 3 days.

https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge>

https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Finding>

http://packages.sw.be/

3ddesktop/                                   29-Jul-2008 04:42

That is the first package in the list. All of the packages  have
today's date on them.