If you use enterprise-class Linux (EL) distributions derived from Fedora, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, we have something very exciting for you.
Ever find yourself rebuilding one of the high-quality Fedora packages for your EL version because it didn't ship with the EL distro?
Friends, there is a new way. May we introduce ...
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)
EPEL is a community of package maintainers working from inside of Fedora. Many are the same people who maintain the Fedora version. Yet, there room for new packages and contributors. Currently, around 1000 packages are available, and we've been growing at the rate of several dozen packages every week.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
How to use EPEL:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse
You can look for packages here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#WhereIsTheSoftwareRepositoryLocated
Looking for a package not in EPEL or other questions?
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Karsten Wade wrote:
If you use enterprise-class Linux (EL) distributions derived from Fedora, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, we have something very exciting for you.
Ever find yourself rebuilding one of the high-quality Fedora packages for your EL version because it didn't ship with the EL distro?
Friends, there is a new way. May we introduce ...
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)
EPEL is a community of package maintainers working from inside of Fedora. Many are the same people who maintain the Fedora version. Yet, there room for new packages and contributors. Currently, around 1000 packages are available, and we've been growing at the rate of several dozen packages every week.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
How to use EPEL:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse
You can look for packages here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#WhereIsTheSoftwareRepositoryLocated
Looking for a package not in EPEL or other questions?
Could the FAQ specifically state that EPEL is not compatible with 3rd party repositories like RPMforge, ATrpms or CentOS Extras ?
-- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
On 27.07.2007 10:59, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Karsten Wade wrote:
If you use enterprise-class Linux (EL) distributions derived from Fedora, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, we have something very exciting for you.
[...]
Looking for a package not in EPEL or other questions?
Could the FAQ specifically state that EPEL is not compatible with 3rd party repositories like RPMforge, ATrpms or CentOS Extras ?
In general: sure. But I don't want to name other repositories, because that might be problematic from a legal standpoint for the Fedora Project (just being careful here, not sure if I'm overreacting). So I just added this to the FAQ:
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Compatibility with other repositories
Mixing different RPM-Repositories that were not designed to be mixed can lead to incompatibilities that often result in depsoving problems in yum or up2date; sometimes it even happens that software is not working as expected if libraries and applications come from different repositories. EPEL is designed as add-on repository for RHEL and compatible derivates and not to be mixed with other repos -- thus not mixing EPEL with other repositories on the same system is the best way to avoid mixing problems. Some people nevertheless do it -- the yum priorities plugin can help to avoid the worst problems.
If you encounter a problem where packages from EPEL are incompatible with another repository or lead yum or up2date to boil out during depsolving please report a bug to Bugzilla; contact the maintainer of the other repository as well. The EPEL project encourages its maintainers to solve such problems together with the maintainers from other repository's, to find a solution that is acceptable for both sides. But there is no guarantee such a solution can or will be found in every case, as technical solutions to solve a repository-mixing issue might have side-effects or drawbacks for one of the repositories involved, which it thus might not be willing to realize. ----
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#head-b631b303a0b54605688fd911f0f3dfc9...
CU thl
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
In general: sure. But I don't want to name other repositories, because that might be problematic from a legal standpoint for the Fedora Project (just being careful here, not sure if I'm overreacting). So I just added this to the FAQ:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#head-b631b303a0b54605688fd911f0f3dfc9...
I think this is good, There are tons of places to get 3rd party RPMs out there. ATrpms, dribble, freshRPMS, jpackage, Livna, RPMForge, PlanetCCRMA all come up in a google search. We certainly aren't asking any of them to mention which repos they are incompatible with and I highly doubt all of them are completely compatible with eachother*.
-Mike
*I have not tried putting all of those repos together on one machine to see that they are all compatible.... I know better :)
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