Hi,

Valery Mitsyn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a few questions related to the contrib area in SL 3/4.
> 
>  - Is there a reason not publishing src.rpm for bttv?
> 
Oversight on my part, the src.rpm for fuse wasn't in the correct place 
either.  They are there now.

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/contrib/SRPMS/

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

The main reason is that the developers of the contrib area are building 
these packages on a i686 machine.
The other reason is that most of these packages are using kernl modules. 
  Some kernel modules we have the source code for, and they might 
actually work just fine in x86_64, but others (ati, nvidia) arn't 
designed for both i686 and x86_64 kernels, so they just won't work.

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

Yep ... looks like it.  I was concentrating on the SL4x contrib section. 
  I'll double check the 30x section a bit later.

Troy

> 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.
>>
>>
> 


-- 
__________________________________________________
Troy Dawson  [log in to unmask]  (630)840-6468
Fermilab  ComputingDivision/CSS  CSI Group
__________________________________________________