Good Alaskan Morning!

I'm getting a centos box to care and feed for as part of my day job, so I have a legit reason to spend 'quality' work time maintaining EPEL variants of some of the Fedora packages I use and maintain currently.


Anything specific I should read up on with regard to EPEL before I dig in?
Beyond the links at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL?

I'm specifically looking for information on not screwing up EPEL branch initialization, cvs and plague usage.


-jef

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On 03/21/2008 07:58 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

Good Alaskan Morning!

I'm getting a centos box to care and feed for as part of my day job,
so I have a legit reason to spend 'quality' work time maintaining EPEL
variants of some of the Fedora packages I use and maintain currently.


Anything specific I should read up on with regard to EPEL before I dig in?
Beyond the links at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL?

I'm specifically looking for information on not screwing up EPEL
branch initialization, cvs and plague usage.
The Howtos on wiki.centos.org might come in handy, too, butI think that
the links you've mentioned should be enough.


/me hoping to see istanbul arriving in EPEL and reiterating the offer to
do the monkey work for that


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2008/3/21 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@gmail.com>:
> Good Alaskan Morning!
>

Oh its finally morning? That must mean black fly season is soon.

> I'm getting a centos box to care and feed for as part of my day job, so I
> have a legit reason to spend 'quality' work time maintaining EPEL variants
> of some of the Fedora packages I use and maintain currently.
>
> Anything specific I should read up on with regard to EPEL before I dig in?
> Beyond the links at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL?
>

Hi Jef.. as you read through it.. could you do us a favour and answer
some questions.
What I would like is:
1) I read this and am confused here, here and here.
2) This didn't answer what I was looking for.
3) What do you mean I have to do...


> I'm specifically looking for information on not screwing up EPEL branch
> initialization, cvs and plague usage.
>



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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:

/me hoping to see istanbul arriving in EPEL and reiterating the offer to

do the monkey work for that



Right... istanbul.* I wasn't going to start with that.* I have to take a close look at what gstreamer is available for each epel branch.* I do remember that gstreamer 0.10* good plugins was missing the necessary video capture module in at least one Fedora release, which has consequences on which istanbul codebase version that has to be used.


Not to diss istanbul or anything, but the gstreamer framework complicates things. Have you look at the other option in this area... gtk-recordmydesktop and recordmydesktop... which does not rely on gst at all and is using libraries directly.* I haven't made a comparison myself, but I'm concerned that the gst framework might make istanbul problematic to maintain for EPEL.


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On 03/21/2008 10:32 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:



On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Manuel Wolfshant
<wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro <mailto:wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro>> wrote:


/me hoping to see istanbul arriving in EPEL and reiterating the
offer to
do the monkey work for that



Right... istanbul. I wasn't going to start with that. I have to take
a close look at what gstreamer is available for each epel branch. I
do remember that gstreamer 0.10 good plugins was missing the
necessary video capture module in at least one Fedora release, which
has consequences on which istanbul codebase version that has to be used.


Not to diss istanbul or anything, but the gstreamer framework
complicates things. Have you look at the other option in this area...
gtk-recordmydesktop and recordmydesktop... which does not rely on gst
at all and is using libraries directly. I haven't made a comparison
myself, but I'm concerned that the gst framework might make istanbul
problematic to maintain for EPEL.
I was in a hurry and recompiling istanbul + python-xlib for centos
5/i386 took < 30 min so i did not look at recordmydesktop (despite the
fact that I've done "cvs co recordmydesktop" immediately after "cvs co
istanbul" but before "make srpm istanbul"). These are the versions I
packaged and used :
-rw-r--r-- 1 wolfy mock 236319 2008-03-19 11:21
python-xlib-0.13-3.el5.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 wolfy mock 111734 2008-03-19 11:35
istanbul-0.2.2-6.el5.i386.rpm


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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:

istanbul-0.2.2-6.el5.i386.rpm



the resulting istanbul when installed actually works? building it isnt the issue. its ending up with an istanbul that can actually do anything.

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On 03/21/2008 10:49 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:



On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Manuel Wolfshant
<wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro <mailto:wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro>> wrote:


istanbul-0.2.2-6.el5.i386.rpm



the resulting istanbul when installed actually works? building it isnt
the issue. its ending up with an istanbul that can actually do anything.

Yes, it does[1]. Otherwise I would not have insisted in having it in EPEL

[1]My collegue (he was the victim forced to use it) claims that he could
not record more then 10 frames. I did not yet have the time to verify.


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