Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Packages of bleeding edge Ekiga.

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm caldwell cdu edu au>]

On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 16:29 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Internet, June the 5th, 2008,
> > Thank to Eugen Dedu, we now have packages for easy testing of our
> > bleeding edge Ekiga.
> >
> > Check it out:
> > http://snapshots.ekiga.net/
> >
> > It includes Debian Unstable (i386 and amd64) and Ubuntu Hardy and Gutsy
> > (i386 and amd64).
> >
> > Those packages feature presence indicator, new and advanced video
> > codecs, a roster like you can find in most Instant Messenger clients, a
> > quality indicator, an easier setup and many other stuff. Last, but not
> > least, many bugs to hunt here and there! Please, be kind enough to help
> > us test and improve it.
> >
> > To report bugs, please use the Gnome Bug Tracking System:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ekiga
> >
> > To help us (e.g. packaging for other great distros or windows), you can
> > use the mailling list.
> 
> For those interested in the latest and greatest ekiga on Fedora 9 can
> grab packages for x86_64 and i386 can grab them from
> http://fedora.roving-it.com/ekiga/
> 
> Not sure if they'll work on Fedora 8 but they should be easy to
> recompile with the included src.rpm's.
> 
> Its not currently setup as a yum repo but that is a possibility if
> there's enough interest.

I would greatly appreciate a yum repo.

Also: thank goodness you are providing src.rpms as well:  these are
essential for bleeding edge packages as you can then compile from source
if things go wrong.  (Previous bleeding edge rpms for redhat/fedora
suffered greatly here)

> I'll randomly upload newer snapshots as I compile them.
> 
> Peter