Hi,

a few questions related to the contrib area in SL 3/4.

  - Is there a reason not publishing src.rpm for bttv?

  - Why x86_64/contrib area is a small subset of i386/contrib?

  - Looks like there are superfluous RPMS and SRPMS in the
    SL 305 (x86_64|i386)contrib/RPMS.

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hi,
> There is a few new products in the contrib area.  For the full list of what 
> is in there you can look at
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/contrib/RPMS/
>
> What's new?
>
> ** bttv
> bttv is linux driver for TV cards based on the bt848 and bt878 chips.
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/contrib/RPMS/bttv/README
>
> ** fuse
> SSHFS is a tool for mounting a remote filesystem transparently and securely 
> over a ssh connection. SSHFS is based on FUSE, the Filesystem in USErspace 
> framework.
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/contrib/RPMS/fuse/README.txt
>
> How do I install them?
>
> yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib list "*bttv*"
> yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib list "*fuse*"
>
> yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib install <whichever you want>
>
> Troy
> p.s. Many Thanks to Paul Rombouts for his work on the fuse rpm's.
>
>

-- 
Best regards,
  Valery Mitsyn