Xapian devel - Sep 2009 - Xapian packages in rpmforge?

hello folks!

i've recently joined the rpmforge maintainers; given that Tim Brody  
has already written specfiles for RHEL4 and RHEL5, would you be  
interested in my adding the xapian packages to rpmforge?  this would  
eliminate (or at least reduce) the need for you to maintain a separate  
repository and would mean that many users (those who have already  
configured their systems to pull packages from rpmforge) would have a  
turnkey installation of Xapian.

i found the SRPMs in http://xapian.org/RPM/centos5/SRPMS/, so i don't  
think i'll need any further technical assistance in porting the  
packages, but i wanted to check in with you first.  thoughts?

-steve

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:16:28AM -0400, Steve Huff
wrote:
> i've recently joined the rpmforge maintainers; given that Tim Brody has
> already written specfiles for RHEL4 and RHEL5, would you be interested in 
> my adding the xapian packages to rpmforge?  this would eliminate (or at 
> least reduce) the need for you to maintain a separate repository and 
> would mean that many users (those who have already configured their 
> systems to pull packages from rpmforge) would have a turnkey installation 
> of Xapian.
I don't know anything about rpmforge (and their website doesn't seem to
offer a useful high-level view of what they are, while wikipedia
redirects rpmforge to the middle of the fedora article, which doesn't
mention rpmforge at all).  I also don't use RPMs myself.

So I don't feel I can usefully have an opinion.  I'd talk to Tim and
Fabrice Colin and see what they think.
> i found the SRPMs in http://xapian.org/RPM/centos5/SRPMS/, so i don't  
> think i'll need any further technical assistance in porting the  
> packages, but i wanted to check in with you first.  thoughts?
There are spec files in the source tarballs, which I think are what the
RPMs in xapian.org/RPM use.  If they need changes, please do send in
patches (in each case .spec is actually generated from .spec.in, just
so that the package name and version update automatically - patches
against either are OK).

Cheers,
    Olly