RedHat RPMs for Beta releases

[Chris Howells]

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Hi,

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 11:55 am, Manik Surtani wrote:

> Looking through your ftp and http download sites though, I only see RPM
> binaries for Mandrake and SuSE.
>
> I understand that both Mandrake and SuSE sponsor KDE, so it is
> understandable that you have these binaries available - but what about
> other popular binary formats like RedHat RPMs and Debian deb's?

Please read http://www.kde.org/packagepolicy.html. MandrakeSoft and SuSE 
sponsoring KDE is largely irrelevant, it's up to the distro to produce the 
packages, not the KDE project.

> I am willing to volunteer to run a script to create the RedHat RPM
> packages from the tarballs everytime a new alpha or beta is made, and
> submit the binaries to your download sites.

Thanks for your offer, but I think it tends to be a bit more involved in just 
running a script.

> And I know someone (a staunch Debian supporter) who would be willing to
> make deb's as well...

Probably the same problem here as well.

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