[users] Centos marks this as a dead project

[Michael McCarrey]

Is there any plans to resurrect repoforge?

Anything that I could do to help resurrect it?

[Justin Paulsen]

Have you checked the EPEL repo to see if it contains what you need? If not
then you could always contribute to it instead of trying to reboot a dead
project.

Post by Michael McCarrey
Is there any plans to resurrect repoforge?
Anything that I could do to help resurrect it?
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[Michael McCarrey]

Well, we're talking about an entire repo, not just a single project
package. What I'm looking for is ffmpeg for Centos 6, which has numerous
dependencies. All of it used to be available from repoforge. nux-dextop has
an ffmpeg that seems to be tailored towards Centos 7 and will lot install
via yum. One gets lost in dependency hell.

Post by Justin Paulsen
Have you checked the EPEL repo to see if it contains what you need? If
not then you could always contribute to it instead of trying to reboot a
dead project.

Post by Michael McCarrey
Is there any plans to resurrect repoforge?
Anything that I could do to help resurrect it?
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[Bryan Smith]

Well, we're talking about an entire repo, not just a single project package.
What I'm looking for is ffmpeg for Centos 6, which has numerous
dependencies. All of it used to be available from repoforge. nux-dextop has
an ffmpeg that seems to be tailored towards Centos 7 and will lot install
via yum. One gets lost in dependency hell.

Weren't things like "ffmpeg" what RPM Fusion was supposed to solve?
Yes, I know, they haven't. :(

-- bjs

[Justin Paulsen]

I meant the repoforge project. Also, have you looked at the Stella repos?
Those are the nux-desktop repos for CentOS 6 I believe.

Post by Michael McCarrey
Well, we're talking about an entire repo, not just a single project
package. What I'm looking for is ffmpeg for Centos 6, which has numerous
dependencies. All of it used to be available from repoforge. nux-dextop has
an ffmpeg that seems to be tailored towards Centos 7 and will lot install
via yum. One gets lost in dependency hell.

Post by Justin Paulsen
Have you checked the EPEL repo to see if it contains what you need? If
not then you could always contribute to it instead of trying to reboot a
dead project.

Post by Michael McCarrey
Is there any plans to resurrect repoforge?
Anything that I could do to help resurrect it?
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http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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Justin Paulsen
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[Scott Robbins]

Sorry, sent this from the wrong address, so quoting will be incorrect.

Post by Michael McCarrey
Well, we're talking about an entire repo, not just a single project
package. What I'm looking for is ffmpeg for Centos 6, which has numerous
dependencies. All of it used to be available from repoforge. nux-dextop has
an ffmpeg that seems to be tailored towards Centos 7 and will lot install
via yum. One gets lost in dependency hell.

It's actually not that hard to build it from source, though I haven't built
it on CentOS-6.x for 6 months or more.
Even on 7.x I build from source as the nux version is a bit old.
https://gist.github.com/mustafaturan/7053900
worked well for me with CentOS-6.x It builds it locally too, so you don't
wind up breaking other things.
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Post by Michael McCarrey
Is there any plans to resurrect repoforge?

There is always hope, but I wouldn't be too optimistic about it. My
priorities, and the priorities of other project members have shifted over
time, and we do not have the capacity to actively maintain it anymore;
could be that this will change at some point, but see above.

Basically, we are keeping it online as is, such that the users can fetch
valuable SPECs / SRPMs if they want, and maybe outdated binary packages if
they insist for whatever reason it may be, but there are no security
updates / bugfixes coming and no new package builds.

Another reason for still keeping it online in this sorry state is that if
(however unlikely) someone pops up with the know how and time to resurrect
it, this can be done, but that's about it.

Post by Michael McCarrey
Anything that I could do to help resurrect it?

I guess not, if you are asking :-)

Basically, we need someone crazy enough to set up a git repository backed
build system and go through every package one by one. Packages that are
already available from other high quality repositories should be dropped,
the rest updated under repoclosure and kept current. Keep in mind that
this would be a full-time job for many months to come, although there is
definitively value in a high quality EPEL-like repository with a less
bureaucratic process and slightly different focus...