Re: RPMforge Fedora Core 4 repositories

On Monday, 13 June 2005 at 01:19, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> > Dries and I have been populating our FC4 repositories, we hope to have 
> > most of the packages available by monday. (certainly with Dries his 
> > shining new x86_64 system)
> 
> As if the discussion on the CentOS mailinglist about failing harddisks 
> was a signal, my main disk on my buildsystem died on me last night. Dries 
> tried recovering it this morning but to no avail.

My condolences.

[...]
> I will have to reinstall all my build environments and will take the 
> opportunity to revise and document the process. If there are people that 
> depend on eg. RH6, EL2, RH7, RH8, RH9, FC1, FC2 or another distribution, 
> step forward now if you like to be closer involved or like to maintain an 
> older distribution. If nobody steps up I will probably drop RH9 and FC1 
> support.

I'd be interested in building FC1 packages for as long as I keep FC1 on my
machines. And, since you're going to document it, I'd be willing to join
in and maintain a few stray packages nobody except me has packaged so far.

Regards,
R.

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