[WBEL-users] About RHEL 3 quaterly upgrade

[Joe Brouhard]

> We were unable to help... but not because of us. I asked repeatedly for
a place where I could distribute my RPMs for WBEL: midnight commander,
courier, dia... I really tried to help, and I wasn't able.
>

Pretty soon, I'll be opening my own mirror.  I will also provide some
information to those interested in placing some 'contrib' RPM's as well as
SRPMS on the server.  I may end up with limited webspace, but I think
it'll be manageable.

> I'm sorry if anyone feels bad about what I said, but I said what I think. I
> think WBEL is the most-near-to-RHEL "clone"  among all the "clones" of
RHEL.
> I really want it to survive.
>

So do I.  I'm not comfortable calling Fedora a "server-level" system yet.

> Installing home-built updates from original RHEL .src.rpm's is an option
but
> certainly not the best one, as it's only valid for us individually but
not for us as a group of users of a distribution.
>
>  (i'm sure noone of us would ever think about distributing .i386.rpm's
> made
> from RHEL's .src.rpm's without White-Box'ing them first).
>

I'm not sure about that.  most SRC RPMs that RedHat provides are designed
to be built by ANYBODY.  Most of the builds I do involve rebuilding RPMs
for specific support (postfix for MYSQL support, Courier for the same).

My virtual mailhost server was derived from the howto at
www.high5.net/howto... but built ENTIRELY using RPMs.  Why?  cause when I
do updates, I can simply fix up the SRC RPMs and upgrade.  Easy 'nuff.

I don't know, but maybe there should be a 'committee' or group of people
that can get these src.rpms and rebuild them and then provide them on the
mirrors...

I'm planning to set up a bugzilla setup pretty soon to house several
projects I manage (mostly web development, but since I'm also providing
some linux services...).  If WBEL needs one, I can arrange to have one
built.

-- 
Joe Brouhard
Chief of Information Services
Kansas City Open Source Consultants
jbrouhard@kcosc.com



-- 
Joe Brouhard
Chief of Information Services
Kansas City Open Source Consultants
jbrouhard@kcosc.com