[WBEL-users] looking for repositories...

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed May 18 12:37:22 CDT 2005


Bringing this back on list...

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 10:23 -0700, bishop wrote:
> 
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 14:54 -0500, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote:
> > 
> >>Please, Where can I find a list of repositories all over internet.. I
> >>want to keep my CentOS servers up 2 date with mailscanner, clamAV,
> >>syslog-ng, and others... I know dag has a very goog one but there are
> >>some paktes I can not find in dag repository like mailscanner,
> >>syslog-ng, among others...
> >>
> >>Sorry if it's offtopic but I need it!
> > 
> > ----
> > don't know about syslog-ng
> > 
> > mailscanner is self-contained, updated frequently and no packagers
> > bother with it since it is script driven (especially the install). The
> > rpm's that you download are source rpm's and are basically all perl code
> > and thus are recompiled by the install script - making it fairly easy...
> 
> Easy?  Huh?  Pardon me, but that summation really grabbed my eye:  I 
> don't think it follows, unfortunately.
> 
> Instead of a single binary package which is installed as part of a 
> larger *identical* set, this one package needs to distribute source 
> packages which operators compile onsite and install?  How do we verify 
> the package contents with our centralized repository if things go wrong? 
>   How to we push out standard upgrades?  Do we have a (argh) customized 
> script for that one puny package so that it'll detect and pick up new 
> source, which is then ~built and installed?
> 
> Bizarre perversions of packaging - which do not work within the 
> recognized model are abberations and unusable in any setup involving 
> more than one computer at a site.  Ugh.
> 
> Sorry.  Please continue the promotion;  I have 30 machines in a lab to 
> upgr-oh, right, it's all done automatically via apt because RPMs like 
> that one aren't in the mix.
----
I wouldn't argue your point - I did insert the word 'fairly' before
easy.

unfortunately, not everything of value lends itself to easy rpm and of
course configuration isn't done by rpm and no doubt that you have
noticed that the trend is not to do version upgrade of various packages
that add new features and require alteration of config files. Lastly,
and this is very much the case with MailScanner, it is a whole bunch of
perl scripts which have various dependencies and thus have this
secondary process which rather beautifully scope the perl environment,
tries to download and compile all of the necessary perl modules to
provide a proper working environment. With the explosion of all of the
perl modules on repositories such as Dag, this may not be necessary in
the future since the perl modules might eventually all be available via
apt/yum.

Craig



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