[clue] reputable external repos? (question)

[Mike Bean]

Turns out I'm going to have to.  The server owner wants an .rpm, and it
looks as though red hat hasn't upgraded to make 3.82 yet, so I guess
roll-my-own just got bumped up on my to-do list [?]


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:

> What specific distro are you running on? If you are on Centos, EPEL works
> well and is reputable. It might have what you are after. The Fedora project
> runs a lot of extra repos for redhat-like distros, so they are a good place
> to look as well.
>
> Also, this might be a good excuse to learn how to roll your own packages.
> It's not _that_ hard, just fiddly, and will be a skill that will server you
> well in your Linux life if managing 50-ish more boxes is the norm for you.
>
> QH
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm doing an gnu make upgrade, either my google-fu has failed me or
>> gnu.org only has it the form of the source code.   I could compile it
>> myself, but considering I have to do this across 50 some odd boxes, it
>> would save me a fair amount of effort if I could find it in an RPM.  My
>> immediate problem is that there appear to be resources out there, stuff
>> like rpmfind, but I haven't been in the linux world long enough to know
>> which ones are reputable and which ones are pirate websites running out of
>> somebody's mother's garage.   Anyone have any reputable 3rd party repos
>> they can recommend?  (At some point I'm going to have to learn how to make
>> .rpms, but for the moment that's on my someday-maybe list.)
>>
>> Mike Bean
>>
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