Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee for RHEL6 and clones

["Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

Hey Nelson, I think this is an awesome idea and contribution!

El 12/11/11 15:54, Nelson Marques escribió:
> Hi all,
>
> I've started yesterday and hopefully will finish during this weekend a
> special repository that provides Banshee for the following platforms:
>
>   - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
>   - CentOS 6
>   - Scientific Linux 6
>
>
> The components used to build Banshee on this repository are:
>
>   * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6:
>     - Mono is provided by Fedora 17 source packages;
>     - icu and libgdiplus are rebuilt on this repository from RHEL6 SRPMS;
>     - libunwind is provided by the Fedora 17 source rpm;
>
>   * CentOS 6:
>     - Mono is provided by Fedora 17 source packages;
>     - libunwind is provided by Fedora 17 source package
>
>   * Scientific Linux 6:
>     - Mono is provided by Fedora 17 source packages
>     - libunwind is provided by Fedora 17 source package
>
>
> Once the repository is complete I could use testers for CentOS6 and
> Scientific Linux6. I can test myself on RHEL since on my $dayjob I use
> only RHEL and I've also purchased RHEL licenses for my home
> computers.
>
> I hope this will help banshee. The repository will provide the same
> versions provided by Banshee:Unstable, which means we will be
> providing the latest release and not the latest stable release. From
> my personal experience, Banshee releases, even the ones with kinky
> numbers (ex: 2.1.x) are mature enough to be served. If anyone doesn't
> like this option and wants to provide only stable releases, feel free
> to contact me and I'll provide you maintainership rights for a
> Banshee:RHEL:Stable repository and you can source the Banshee:RHEL
> repository to provide build dependencies and maintain there only the
> stable releases.
>
> For the time being this is the plan.
>
> If Banshee things it's cool to provide links for the repositories
> (once they are tested) on their webpage (even considering that we
> probably won't have much customers for those platforms), I encourage
> such decision. I encourage bug reports against this platforms to be
> filed on BNC (bugzilla.novell.com) as I am triaging and starting to do
> the Banshee stuff there.
>
> If there's no interest on Banshee side to have this repositories
> advertised to the public, no worries, I'll keep maintaining them for
> personal purposes. As Tom Callaway from Fedora is sponsoring my
> application to Fedora Packaging, I hope to provide a full Mono
> Repository soon for RHEL/CentOS/ScientificLinux soon based on Fedora
> 17 (which I might be able to help maintain on Fedora as well) on
> openSUSE Build Service, in fact I've email opensuse-project list
> yesterday to explore this option (use OBS to provide a mono repository
> for RHEL, since Red Hat has announced they will not do it).
>
>
> Nelson Marques.