[OTR-users] Would you be interested in hosting Mandrake 10.1 rpms on your site?

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Fri Apr 1 08:38:09 EST 2005


On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 06:41:50AM -0500, jcohen07 at brandeis.edu wrote:
> I compiled libotr-2.0.1 and gaim-otr-2.0.1 on my Mandrake 10.1 system and was
> wondering if you would host these on your site. Often users (new ones
> especially) shy away from software when no rpm is available. Mandrake is used
> by a lot of new linux users who may not feel comfortable compiling from
> source and no otr rpms are provided in mandrake's main or contrib depository.
> I assume rpms are only provided for Fedora Core 3 because the developers are
> using FC or Debian and don't have access to systems with other distrobutions.
> 
> I already have rpms built for libotr, libotr-devel and gaim-otr and would
> gladly rebuild otr-proxy if you're interested in hosting the rpms.

That'd be fine; let me know where to download them from, and we'll put
them up.  Are you volunteering to make Mandrake rpms every time there's
a release, or just this time?

[What's the difference between a Mandrake RPM and a Fedora RPM?  I don't
use either system.]

Thanks,

   - Ian



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