Ken Teh wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>> ...
>>
>> Troy
>> p.s. we do have mediawiki in our atrpm's directory which is maintained 
>> by Axel Thimm
>>
> 
> I've seen the name "Axel Thimm" bantered around on this list, but I must
> confess I dont understand Axel's relationship or significance to SL.  Also,
> where is atrpm?
> 
> Ken

Axel Thimm is the maintainer of atrpms.

http://atrpms.net/

ATrpms is a repository where he has recompiled various packages so that 
they work with different versions of RedHat, or RedHat compatible releases.
These are packages that aren't normally found in the release, but are 
useful or wanted.
We have integrated some of these packages into Scientific Linux.

You might also hear us talk of Dag Wiers or Dries (I forget Dries full 
name), who also do the same thing, usually with differnt packages, 
sometimes with the same packages.

We have a mirror of these various repositories (not a full mirror, just 
what applies to scientific linux) and have put configuration files into 
yum so that it is easy to access these repositories.

Please note that they are not supported by the scientific linux 
developers.  They are only there for a convienience.  If you have 
questions about the varous packages in them, you should contact the 
appropriate maintainer.

More information about our various repositories can be found at

https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/yum.apt.repo

Troy
p.s. Axel is often talked about more here because he actually listens to 
the mailling list, so he often responds to questions about his 
repository on this list.  Dag and Dries do not.
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