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Written by Professor Kriehn
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 20:52 |
Well, it took forever and a day, but my Fedora 8 notes are finally complete -- just in time for Fedora 9 to be released 2 months from now . =p
There were some major updates to the webpages, and some major overall changes to adjust to, though, so not all was in vain. Didier's Enlightenment repository has officially come to an end, which left a lot of people without an easy way to install E17, so I decided to learn how to develop spec files, build rpms, and host my own Yum Repository . Over 90 Enlightenment related packages are now available for installation (including a few of my own), and updates to other programs such as xosview, xv, etc. are available in the repo as well. The repository has become popular enough to be mirrored, and last month I had over 400,000 hits on the server, averaging above 10,000 per day. The last time E17 packages hit the repo, my server was hammared for well over two hours before settling down, so I guess overall it has been a tradeoff. Certainly learning how to build rpms properly (including the use of mock) took *a lot* longer than I hoped, but at least I now have a set of scripts that perform all of the work for me.
I've recently been asked to port the RPMs over to the Fedora repository (which would be really cool!), but their packaging guidelines are just a wee bit daunting for me to tackle at this point in time. And there are too many other committments pulling at my attention for me to be able to put everything else back on hold for another 2 months. So the Fedora repo will have to wait. Maybe that will be the major undertaking for Fedora 9. =p
Plus, I need time to finish my 64 tri-color LED Graduation Hat using PWM control, LED shift-register drivers, and A/D conversion before graduation time in May! More on that later. ;)
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