Re: Getting a new package added to CentOS

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Author: Charles Jones
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Getting a new package added to CentOS
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.

-Charles
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