Getting a new package added to CentOS

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:13 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> Craig White wrote: 
> > 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.
> > >     
> > ----
> > I believe that dag is starting to bundle for EPEL too...
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
> >   
> What's the difference between EPEL and CentOSPlus ?
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CentOS Plus tends to be the same packages that are in CentOS Base but
done differently - typically different compile options but sometimes
entirely newer versions and thus wholesale replacement of base packages.
One would never enable CentOS Plus repository if they wanted to track
RHEL packages.

For example, CentOS Plus packages...

kernels have appletalk and other modules added that aren't part of RHEL
newer versions of MySQL, PHP, Apache than RHEL
Postfix compiled with mysql
and more

CentOS packages are all compiled by CentOS packagers...none of the
CentOS repositories include packages built by non-CentOS packagers.

Craig