On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote: > >> John a écrit : >> > >> > I do not and did not mean to be offensive to Dag, and I apologize if I >> > was--it just seemed like an issue that would be affecting a lot more >> > people >> > than just me and I wanted to see what others were doing about it. >> > So far I've not heard what that is. >> >> I second that. Dag is doing great work, and for desktop users, CentOS >> wouldn't be the same without RPMForge. However, this update has been >> botched up. Existing systems can be left in the present state by putting >> an 'exclude=wxGTK amule vlc audacity' line in /etc/yum.conf. But when >> installing a new system, 'yum install vlc audacity' does not work. This is >> a worry for me, as I install desktop systems professionally, and I use >> both programs on client's desktops (yes, amule too, when the client wants >> it... :o)). As far as I'm concerned, I worked around it by simply >> rebuilding wxGTK (2.6), amule, vlc and audacity from SRPM and putting them >> in my own repo with a higher priority. This took the best part of an >> afternoon. >> >> My suggestion to Dag (with all respect taken): why not create a >> [rf-testing] repo for the critical stuff, a bit like [kbsingh]? > > Because I have no time for it. It is as simple as that. > > And I prefer stop doing RPMforge than to spend more of my free time. rpmrepo > was going to be RPMforge's successor (ATrpms, RPMforge, CentOS, all-in-one > and community-based), but there is no progress there and that's why I am > still here. > > Currently, what I build is what becomes available. Often there is a delay > because I want to make the repo as consistent as can be, but if a single > package is holding back too many other packages I prefer to break the repo (I > am using apt, apt can handle dependency-issues with no problem). > > If someone want to step up and become a gatekeeper between a testing > repository and a real rpmforge repository and shift the packages between, by > all means do that and if it works, great. But I won't be doing that work and > handle that complexity. I want to reduce the free time I spend maintaining > packages I don't even use myself, not increase that time. > > In this case audacity does not build against wxGTK 2.8.8, at least not on my > system and nobody offered any help so far. A compat-wxGTK could be the > solution, although compat-packages have a tendency to break even more with > other repositories (and sadly Fedora opted NOT to follow Mandriva's lead in > sensible package-names for libraries). > > So that's the official word. > > PS No waranties implied. No refund :-/ BTW Let me add that RPMforge since 4 years or so is not just me. At least Dries Verachtert and Fabian Arrotin do a lot of work in resp. maintaining packages and building the PPC packages. And a handful of other contributors maintain some packages. For a long time Matthias Saou was heavily involved in a lot of desktop and multimedia applications. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]