Hello,
Let me clarify this just a bit.

I did not say "Please send me a list of all of packages around the world 
that people want put in."

The reason I said "packages from the various Scientific Linux sites" was 
because those sites are being maintained.  There is a person, or groups 
of people, at each site whose job it is to maintain the packages in 
their site.  Hens, I don't have to go out to all sorts of various 
package web sites to maintain a package, I can just go to the one 'site' 
and get their latest updates.

Some people have asked about Dag, Atrpm's, and Dries.  I can be talked 
into using some of those, but I'd really prefer to just add the 
scientific stuff.  Because they are yum repositories, packages from them 
can be added later.  An exception to that is networking things that are 
in their repositories (because it's hard to get at their repositories, 
if you have no network).  So, 'madwifi' will be looked at.


Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> We would like to know what packages from the various Scientific Linux 
> sites (Scientific Linux Cern, Fermi, DESY, PSI) people would like to see 
> migrated to generic Scientific Linux.
> 
> This topic was brought up for dicussion in the past HEPIX.  It was 
> brought up mainly so that admin's would be able to install just the 
> generic S.L., and get the scientific programs they need, without having 
> to install a site specific distribution.
> 
> These are the results so far.
> (Note: This is too late to get things into 307 and 43, but are planned 
> to go into contrib for now, and then 4.4 and/or 3.0.7)
> 
> XFS - from S.L.C
>   For Scientific Linux 3.0.x - No, we can't do that.  The hooks for XFS 
> just are not in the kernel and it would require a modified kernel.
>   For Scientific Linux 4.x - Yes, we will try to do that.  The hooks are 
> there, so we can just do a kernel-module.  I also have my scripts that 
> just rebuilds kernel modules without much of a fuss.  We are working on 
> getting the most stable release.  I have been told that the release in 
> CVS has been very stable with RedHat's kernel, but that it might not 
> have been tested enough.
> **Does anyone want to be our XFS champion and figure out which release 
> of XFS should be our kernel module?  This would involve getting involved 
> with the XFS community, as well as stress testing the kernel modules?**
> 
> KDE - from S.L.P
>   No, it would change too much.  But if people want, we could show them 
> how to upgrade their KDE from http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
> 
> The packages from S.L.C. that have made it into Fedora Core 5 Extras
>   I think this is a very good suggestion.  This is because someone has 
> already went through their release and figured out what is important 
> enough to port to F.C. 5.  Also, they have already 'un-CERN-ed' those rpms.
> This is the list that I have so far.  Somebody let me know if I'm 
> missing some, because I'm not an expert on this.
>   cernlib
>   paw
>   atlas
>   geant
>   kuipc
>   cpanspec
> 
> root - from Linux Ink
>   Yes, I know that Linux Ink is not a site, but as far as I can tell, 
> they are the only group that has packaged root in rpm form.
> 
> 
> Are there any others that people think should be included?
> Troy


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