Getting a new package added to CentOS

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:01 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> Craig White wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:57 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> >   
> > > I'm on a quest to get Hobbit Monitor ( 
> > > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon ) added to several linux 
> > > distros. Someone has already gotten it into Mandriva and Debian. I sort 
> > > of volunteered to package it for Fedora (hopefully fc9), and CentOS.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone submitted a package to CentOS before? I'm not sure if it 
> > > belongs in the "contribs" repo, or "centosplus", or if it is even up to 
> > > me to decide which repo it ends up in.
> > >     
> > ----
> > probably best to ask the CentOS packagers and I think that they have
> > their own mail list for packagers.
> > 
> > It's unlikely it would end up at any CentOS repository but perhaps EPEL
> > repository would be the proper place.
> Thanks for the tip.  I suppose once I have gotten the hang of creating
> and maintaining packages I could submit it to dags and such as well.
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I believe that dag is starting to bundle for EPEL too...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Craig