Jake Shipton writes: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:50:21 +0000 > nux at li.nux.ro wrote: > >> Jake, >> >> Sure, 3.5 is on the to do list. >> I see this trend a lot, to make repos out of official rpms (at least >> Ljubomir is also doing it). Maybe it's worth doing this on a bigger >> scale. Care to share what exactly you are doing? Are you using any >> "meta" packages? > Hi, > > The setup is pretty basic (imo) because the repo is used only in a LAN > and never used outside of this LAN, I do not worry about generating > delta's or stuff like that. I don't even GPG sign them. > > The local repo is also used for other self compiled RPM's. These would > usually be tagged with a ".hr" tag (ie, > <packagename>-<version>.el6.hr.x86_64) for easy removal. > > But as far as I am aware to do that, with official RPM's it would > require a rebuild. > > So what I tend to do is just open up filezilla, ftp to a libreoffice > mirror, browse my way to libreoffice stable RPM's, and download them to > "/var/www/html/repository/<arch>" (Which is actually just a link > to /home/<username>/rpmbuild/RPMS) > > Obviously the repository it's self is pre-setup because of the other > packages, so as my normal user next up I would just run: > > createrepo --update ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch> > createrepo --update ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/SRPMS > > A quick check for SELinux permission's and it's good to go :-). Now > from local machines on the LAN I would just use "yum install libobasis* > libreoffice*" etc, then pick and remove the unnecessary extra packages. > and "yum update" takes care of updates :-) (after I have redone the > above..) > > This is something most user could easily do them selves, and it could > also be done publicly, however it is still a "messy" method even if > somebody else does it for you (and you just enable/add the repo). > > I would still prefer to be able to have RPM's built specifically for > EL6. > > I guess that raises the question of "You have the repo, rpmbuild > etc setup, why don't you build them your self?", and to answer it: > > Because I do not have the CPU Power :-) (Still got a Single core > here....) > > But yeah.. that's basically all I do :-). > > PS: Sorry for any typo's etc I was tired when I wrote this email, had > been awake only a few minutes. > Thanks Jake for the details. Well, what you say about building it yourself is what I'm actually trying to do now, but it is not a piece of cake: http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/libreoffice-testing/el6/i386/ http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/libreoffice-testing/el6/x86_64/ But at least it's done Fedora/Redhat way :-) I will seriously look into making a proper repo out of the Libreoffice.org rpms.. I'll let you know how it goes. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro