[CentOS] Status of RPMFusion repo for CentOS 5 and 6 ?

[Johnny Hughes]

On 05/31/2016 05:12 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have to maintain (and eventually beef up) desktop clients in public
> libraries running CentOS 5 and 6. The hardware is still OK, though
> sometimes really old, so the least evil will be to keep CentOS 5 on the
> old machines until that version is EOL.
> 
> I've been using CentOS 5 as my main system somewhere between 2007 and
> 2009. At the time the RPMForge was my favorite third-party repository,
> though I understand that project is dead. I'm looking for a clean and
> viable solution to replace this. Here's what I intend to do.
> 
> 1. Configure the base, updates and extra repos with a priority of 1.
> 
> 2. Configure EPEL with a priority of 10.
> 
> 3. Configure RPMFusion with a priority of 10.
> 
> Now I don't know about the status of RPMFusion. Is this third-party repo
> still maintained? I wonder, since their home page only gives information
> about RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6. From what I understand, it's healthy to mix
> it with an EL+EPEL base.
> 
> I'm planning to add some basic (and somewhat extended) multimedia
> capability to those desktop clients, so packages like mplayer, ffmpeg,
> lame and the likes will come in handy. For eventually missing packages
> (like eventually an old version of VLC for reading DVDs), I'll just grab
> the SRPMS from the old RPMForge repo and setup my own repo after
> building them locally.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Niki Kovacs
> 

BTW. I have no idea if RPMFusion is still active or not for CentOS,
maybe others on the list know.  My Nux! repo comment is an alternative
for C6 and C7.

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