On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:14:12AM +0100, Jan Iven wrote:
> On 13/11/07 03:47, Michael Mansour wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >>Hello, I'm new here, but now new in Linux.  I've been a RedHat/Fedora
> >>user about 10 years.
> >>
> ..
> >I think for any of these dependencies you should try the rpmforge third 
> >party
> >repository. Dag, Dries, or even Axel Thimms (atrpms.net) provide a range of
> >RPM's for RHEL and Fedora releases.
> 
> While perhaps not as widely know as RPMForge, 
> http://www.alcancelibre.org/al/el/5/SRPMS.al/
> http://www.alcancelibre.org/al/el/5/RPMS.al/ seems to have 
> gnumeric-1.6.3-1.9.el5.al.i386.rpm which implies they somehow got it to 
> build..

Indeed, I had never heard of this repo before.

> In general I'd also look at CentOS repositories such as 'CentOSPlus' 
> (http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/centosplus) or Karanbir Singh's 
> http://centos.karan.org/ for such things. We are all one 
> largely-compatible happy family after all...
> 
> The question (to me) would rather how many system packages you are 
> willing to replace in order to get a particular version of gnumeric, 
> given that you would need to keep an eye for updates for these packages 
> yourself for all eternity - one-time availability in a repo is no 
> guarantee that these will be maintained.

What we (the CentOS/SL/RHEL 3rd party community) are up to is a merged
repository that will enable everyone to create his/her niche of
enterprise packages: http://rpmrepo.org
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net