WBEL Repository like Freshrpms -- was Re: [WBEL-users] nvidia nforce boards and integrated NIC

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 09:06 -0500, iron monkey wrote:
> This type of thing made me think about the idea of creating a
> respository of WBEL rpms/srpms that would be outside the main
> distribution just like freshrpms...  Or, maybe consider working with
> the freshrpm people to see if they'd add WBEL to the list of rpms that
> they track...
> 
> I understand the purpose of maintaining the core of WBEL to be direct
> builds off of RHEL SRPMs, but would it be worth while to have
> something like freshrpms for WBEL?
> 
> Maybe it's not really required because the RPMs from freshrpms would
> probably work so there may not be any issues.
> 
> It's just a thought, would it even be worth it? 
> 
> Probably posting to the wrong list?
> 
> Mark
> 

Dag Wieers ( http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php ) has a yum
repository with many programs for RHEL/WBEL/CentOS/TaoLinux/Lineox.

> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:57:14 +0200, Alexandre Aufrere
> <loopkin@nikosoft.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I fixed and customized 274 drivers from NVIDIA for both NIC and audio. I
> > also wrote a new specfile, so that the version number depends on the
> > kernel version number: this allows to install and maintain easily one
> > version for each kernel.
> > 
> > If someone is interested i can post the SRPM here (well, i hope it is
> > legal: i didn't read the NVIDIA license very carefully).
> > Actually, what would be even better for me is that these drivers are
> > integrated by someone in a repository and kept in sync with WB3...
> > 
> > Lastly, the forcedeth OSS driver for the NIC has been backported to 2.4,
> > so there is still hope that in a future update it is put directly into
> > the RHEL/WB 3 kernel.
> > 
> > c u
> > 
> > Alex
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