[clue] reputable external repos? (question)

[Quentin Hartman]

So yeah, the EPEL repo that Fedora runs will probably have what you want.


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Red Hat.  6.3
>
>
> 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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