[users] RPMforge status update

[Dag Wieers]

Hi all,

Here is a small status update about RPMforge's progress. In the advent of 
rpmrepo we are reorganising RPMforge a bit.

At FOSDEM we concluded that the most important thing holding us back was 
the fact that we relied on a single server to upload our RPM packages that 
was not sized to generate metadata, nor process the packages.

We have now moved to a new server that improves the workflow and this 
allows us to add Fabian Arrotin as a packager for EL5/ppc and EL4/ppc.
We are now reorganising the tree a little bit without impacting existing 
users and as soon as this is finished HEAnet will be redirected to the new 
location.

This will also allow us to have more mirrors syncing from this new server 
and removes our dependency on HEAnet (mitigating the problems we have had 
last year, the previous month and this week).

So nothing really changes except that everything should work better :) And 
we will soon be offering EL5/ppc and EL4/ppc packages. If other 
architectures or distributions are required and you are willing to help 
out, let us know.

Here is a list of all the present and past distributions/archs RPMforge is 
building for. In total 21 different distributions/archs are supported. 10 
distributions/archs are offered but no longer supported. For 10 
distributions we are offering an alternative non-authotiative repository.


### This is a list of all the distributions (un)supported by RPMforge

### Authoritative
#nick tag  arch    dir           author  own yum apt md tag2     desc
fc8a  fc8  x86_64  fedora/8      dries   y   n   y   y  -        Fedora Core 8
fc8i  fc8  i386    fedora/8      dries   y   n   y   y  -        Fedora Core 8
fc7a  fc7  x86_64  fedora/7      dries   y   n   y   y  -        Fedora Core 7
fc7i  fc7  i386    fedora/7      dries   y   n   y   y  -        Fedora Core 7
el5p  el5  ppc     redhat/el5    fabian  y   n   y   y  -        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
el5a  el5  x86_64  redhat/el5    dag     y   y   y   y  -        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
el5i  el5  i386    redhat/el5    dag     y   y   y   y  -        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
fc6a  fc6  x86_64  fedora/6      dries   y   n   y   y  -        Fedora Core 6
fc6i  fc6  i386    fedora/6      dries   y   n   y   y  -        Fedora Core 6
fc5a  fc5  x86_64  fedora/5      dries   y   n   y   y  -        Fedora Core 5
fc5i  fc5  i386    fedora/5      dries   y   n   y   y  -        Fedora Core 5
fc4a  fc4  x86_64  fedora/4      dries   y   n   y   y  -        Fedora Core 4
fc4i  fc4  i386    fedora/4      dries   y   n   y   y  -        Fedora Core 4
el4p  el4  ppc     redhat/el4    fabian  y   y   y   y  -        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
el4a  el4  x86_64  redhat/el4    dag     y   y   y   y  -        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
el4i  el4  i386    redhat/el4    dag     y   y   y   y  -        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
el3a  el3  x86_64  redhat/el3    dag     y   y   y   y  rhel3    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
el3i  el3  i386    redhat/el3    dag     y   y   y   y  rhel3    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
rh9i  rh9  i386    redhat/9      dag     y   y   y   y  rh90     Red Hat Linux 9.0
rh7i  rh7  i386    redhat/7.3    dag     y   y   y   y  rh73     Red Hat Linux 7.3
el2i  el2  i386    redhat/el2.1  dag     y   y   y   y  rhel2.1  Red Hat Linux 2.1

### Expired
fc3a  fc3  x86_64  fedora/3      dag     y   y   y   y  -        Fedora Core 3
fc3i  fc3  i386    fedora/3      dag     y   y   y   y  -        Fedora Core 3
fc2l  fc2  alpha   fedora/2      bert    y   y   y   y  -        Fedora Core 2
fc2a  fc2  x86_64  fedora/2      dag     y   y   y   y  -        Fedora Core 2
fc2i  fc2  i386    fedora/2      dag     y   y   y   y  -        Fedora Core 2
fc1i  fc1  i386    fedora/1      dag     y   y   y   y  rhfc1    Fedora Core 1
rh8i  rh8  i386    redhat/8.0    dag     y   y   y   y  rh80     Red Hat Linux 8.0
rh6i  rh6  i386    redhat/6.2    dag     y   n   y   y  rh62     Red Hat Linux 6.2
au192 au1.92 sparc aurora/1.92   dries   y   y   y   y  -        Aurora Linux 1.92
au191 au1.91 sparc aurora/1.91   dries   y   y   y   y  -        Aurora Linux 1.91

### Non-authoritative
#nick tag  arch    dir           author  own yum apt md tag2     desc
el5a  el5  x86_64  redhat/el5    dries   n   y   y   y  -        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
el5i  el5  i386    redhat/el5    dries   n   y   y   y  -        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
el4a  el4  x86_64  redhat/el4    dries   n   y   y   y  -        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
el4i  el4  i386    redhat/el4    dries   n   y   y   y  -        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
fc3i  fc3  i386    fedora/3      dries   n   y   y   y  -        Fedora Core 3
fc2i  fc2  i386    fedora/2      dries   n   y   y   y  -        Fedora Core 2
fc1i  fc1  i386    fedora/1      dries   n   y   y   y  rhfc1    Fedora Core 1
el3a  el3  x86_64  redhat/el3    dries   n   y   y   y  rhel3    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
el3i  el3  i386    redhat/el3    dries   n   y   y   y  rhel3    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
rh9i  rh9  i386    redhat/9      dries   n   y   y   y  rh90     Red Hat Linux 9.0

Kind regards,
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