[OPEN-ILS-DEV] OpenSRF packages for testing

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Project)]

Hi there,

To go along with my packaging efforts, I wanted to introduce a 
repository of Evergreen ILS packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 
CentOS 5 (i386 and x86_64 arches only), which, presumably, is the type 
of distribution you would want to run Evergreen ILS on if and when you 
are in the realm of RPM based distributions.

This repository is complementary to the Extra Packages for Enterprise 
Linux (EPEL, [1]) repository, as packages required by the OpenSRF 
package as well as other packages in this Evergreen ILS repository, are 
available through EPEL already.

I should also tell you about a few special aspects of this repository;

- This repository contains perl-XML-LibXML, libxslt and libxml2 versions 
more recent then what is available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and/or 
CentOS 5. While not a serious problem, you should be aware that 
upgrading these packages could potentially break other applications that 
run on the same system, and as such void your warranty (eg. support) on 
Red Hat systems (including certified ISV applications).

- The packages in this repository are not GPG signed. It turns out to be 
a pita to sign all packages and make sure the key is distributed in a 
sustainable fashion; I just don't have that kind of infrastructure -yet.

- The packages in this repository are for testing only; I also need the 
repository for building other apps (such as Evergreen ILS itself), and 
while I figure things out I might just decide to put in yet another 
version of some or the other package in there -which would then also 
immediately make the new package (upgrade?) available to the systems you 
use this repository on. Please, please, please do not use this 
repository in any kind of production environment, or do so at your own 
risk (and send me more patches).

Ergo, the repository lives at 
http://mirror.nl.kanarip.com/custom/el5-evergreen, which is also the 
location of a demonstration YUM configuration file configuring the 
repository (when downloaded to /etc/yum.repos.d/.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

PS. Review request for libmemcache at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539472
Review request for OpenSRF at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539469

PS^2: Since the requirements of OpenSRF include more recent versions of 
packages shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 itself, which by itself 
maintains a (guaranteed) stable API/ABI, I regret to have to say it is 
very unlikely that Evergreen ILS will ever be available through the EPEL 
5 repository. That said, I'm targetting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 now.