On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:45 AM, BJ Dierkes
<wdierkes(a)5dollarwhitebox.org> wrote:
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Hello all,
I find it interesting that this thread come up like this, as I have just
launched a project that fits this requirement exactly (or almost exactly).
Please check out the IUS Community Project:
http://iuscommunity.org
This is a project I started due to the need for newer packages of
PHP/MySQL/Python/Etc on RHEL. The project is sponsored by Rackspace Hosting
(my employer
http://www.rackspace.com) and is in fact what we have been
doing internally for the last 3 years to meet certain customers needs.
Different from EPEL and RPM Fusion, packages from IUS _explicitly_ do
replace existing packages in RHEL. There is an inherent risk in doing so,
as well as following the upstream stable sources rather than back porting...
however it serves a very specific audience... people that absolutely need
the latest versions of software to run their application.
I haven't added PostGreSQL yet but it is on the list. Maybe I'll get to
that today. Regardless, please check out the project and see what the
existing package list is here:
http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/
Looking for any feedback you might have.
---
derks
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Sounds to me that we don't need to duplicate efforts and that those
interested can contribute to the IUS efforts. I know they aren't
accepting packages from the community (yet) but interested parties can
still send in patches and such or I assume a package request using
their
launchpad.net instance. Might even be able to expedite the
process if a SPEC and SRPM are included ;)
FAQ:
http://iuscommunity.org/wp/?page_id=9
Thanks Derks for the info, we actually just ran into a situation here
at work today where I was going to have to roll my own MySQL 5.1.x and
now I don't have to :)
-Adam
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