[packagers] becoming a packager

[J Robinson]

On Nov 22, 2007 1:22 PM, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, J Robinson wrote:
>
> > Yup, rebuilding mediawiki.src.rpm with epel5 enabled succeeded -- it
> > installed ocaml from the epel5 repo in order to build mediawiki.
>
> ocaml is in RPMforge, if you start building packages against EPEL (which
> is by design incompatible with other 3rd party efforts) they are not
> guaranteed to work with RPMforge.
>

I see what you're saying here.


> > Any tips on setting up a custom repo with my custom rpms? I'm planning
> to:
> > * make a dir called /home/admin/mirrors/localrepo/centos/5/
> > * make dirs called SRPMS, i386, and x86_64 inside there, and
> > * place the new rpms in the appropriate dirs (and the src.rpm in the
> SRPMS dir)
> >
> > I think that then I also need to run createrepo on
> > /home/admin/mirrors/localrepo/centos/5/x86_64 (and
> > /home/admin/mirrors/localrepo/centos/5/i386, if there are rpms there)
> >
> > Then, assuming I serve /home/admin/mirrors/localrepo from
> > http://mirrormydom.com/mirrors/localrepo, set up a localrepo.repo file
> > in /etc/yum.repos.d like this:
> >
> > [localrepo]
> > name=localrepo
> > baseurl=http://mirror.mydom.com/mirrors/localrepo/centos/5/$basearch/
> > enabled=1
> > priority=20
> >
> > Does that all look correct, or am I missing something, or getting
> > something wrong?
>
> I there a reason why you think this is incorrect ?
>

Just looking for feedback! Thanks again :)
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