[WBEL-devel] non-RHEL packages, IA64

[John A. Tamplin]

Is there interest in keeping a repository for non-RHEL packages compiled 
for WBEL?  For servers, I tend to stick to the tried-and-true RHEL 
versions (there are always some like openldap that I need features in more 
recent versions), but for my desktops in particular I want the current 
version of Mozilla, etc.

Right now I can just grab RHL9 RPMs and they work fine on RHEL3, but I 
wonder if those will be going away or if there may need to be some 
modifications for some of them for later updates of WBEL.  I was thinking 
it might be reasonable to have a repository of extra packages built for 
WBEL.

In case anyone is interested, I am about half way through compiling RC2 
for IA64.  I will be able to test that the CDs boot (does anyone know if 
there is anything special that needs to be done for install CDs with EFI?) 
but I will not be able to install them on that machine to verify that 
everything installs properly.

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