RedHat RPMs for Beta releases

[Jason Bainbridge]

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Manik,

We currently rely upon vendors and individuals to provide binary packages that 
we gladly distribute via ftp.kde.org and up until recently Jarl Gjessing was 
providing RPM's for RedHat but unfortunately is no longer able to do so.

There has actually been a discussion held on the kde-devel mailing list just 
recently about this very issue that you may wish to read, the link to the 
mailing list archive for the thread is available at:

http://lists.kde.org/?t=103089261200002&r=1&w=2

I suggest you read through the posts and if you are interested contact Shawn 
Gordon about his proposal, then go from there. 

If you have any questions just let me know or join the discussion on 
kde-devel.

Regards,
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Jason Bainbridge
KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop
http://kde.org - webmaster at kde.org



On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 06:55 pm, Manik Surtani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a redhat user and I am keen to try out the new KDE 3.1 beta 1.
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> And I know someone (a staunch Debian supporter) who would be willing to
> make deb's as well...
>
> How would I go about doing this?
>
> Cheers,
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