CentOS - Aug 2013 - repoforge :: is it still active?

Hi! I am trying to to ask the packagers from repoforge for updated
packages of ganglia and rrdtool and i got no answer on their mail list..
Does anyone have idea if repoforge is still active?

Thanks!
Adrian

They off up their SRC rpms right? Grab the .spec file and have a go at
updating it yourself. It's sometimes as simple as grabbing the new src tar
ball, incrementing the build number and running rpmbuild -ba blah.spec.
Sometimes there are patches to merge or library issues, but I've had really
good luck at that. Also, if you show up to an interview and say you build
your own rpms for consistent builds and deployments you're going to get a
lot farther than most people.

If you get stuck look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package, they have good
links to IBM docs.


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Adrian Sevcenco <Adrian.Sevcenco at
cern.ch>wrote:
> Hi! I am trying to to ask the packagers from repoforge for updated
> packages of ganglia and rrdtool and i got no answer on their mail list..
> Does anyone have idea if repoforge is still active?
>
> Thanks!
> Adrian
>
>
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On 08/07/2013 08:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 07.08.2013 19:12, schrieb Adrian Sevcenco:
>> On 08/07/2013 06:41 PM, Patrick Flaherty wrote:
>>> They off up their SRC rpms right? Grab the .spec file and have a go
at
>> i already did this (for el6 - see below) .. i have the rpms, but at
this
>> moment would be for me too time consuming to learn how to make a repo
> 
> what do you need to learn?
> 
> * yum install createrepo
> * createrepo /path/to/your/existing/rpms/
> * let point any httpd/ftpd server point to /path/to/your/rpms/
> * copy a .repo-file from /etc/yum.repos.d/ and modify it for your needs
> 
> this does not take longer than 10 minutes at all
thanks a lot!!! easier than i thought!

Adrian