On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 18/04/16 13:34, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > Unfortunately, I have neither the time, nor expertise to partake in > > such a project. > > is there someone else on here who can help ? I think if we can > demonstrate some traction, it would go a long way in both the upstream > engagement and the conversation with Red Hat - since we can then > demonstrate a communal win. > > > Since Mr. Hughes had already gotten earlier versions of chromium > > to build under CentOS 6 (c.f. > > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/), and he indicated it > > was merely a matter of getting RHEL to give permission for him to > > redistribute it more "formally" to the community, I was hoping > > progress had been made with that. > > Johnny, can you perhaps quantify the effort a bit ? And if you need > help what sort of help you might need for this ? I suspect a large > part of that is just going to be time in day. > > > Have you, as the CentOS project lead ever asked RedHat if they can > > make their version of Chromium for CentOS 6 available for us? If > > not, can you please? > > I havent, but am more than willing to take the question up. > > regards, > > - -- > Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project Thanks. I imagine (hope?) there shouldn't be too much effort to get this to work, since it's already been done upstream. RedHat continues to push out updates even. E.g. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu