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From: epel-devel-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:epel-devel-list-
bounces(a)redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Traylen
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:48 AM
To: EPEL development disccusion
Subject: Re: Nagios Packages for EL5
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto
<itamar(a)ispbrasil.com.br> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Dan Burkland <dburklan(a)nmdp.org> wrote:
>> Hey All,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have been using both the EPEL & RPMForge repositories for several
>> packages, mainly for Puppet & Nagios. I have noticed that while
RPMForge
>> offers version 3 of Nagios, they only offer an older version of Puppet.
EPEL
>> on the other hand has a newer version of Puppet however an older
version of
>> Nagios for EL5. While I could probably periodically add each new
version of
>> each package to my personal repository, I thought this would be a great
>> opportunity for me to help contribute to the community. I would like to
help
>> get the EL5 version of the Nagios packages as up to date as possible
and was
>> wondering what the possible steps for doing that would be. I have
created an
>> account on FAS and now lost on the next step. I would it appreciate it
if
>> any of you kind folks could point me in the right direction.
>>
Read some history on this here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2009-July/msg00027.html
In summary it ended with no update happening due to the good desire
to not update within EPEL.
Steve
I have contacted the package owner (Mike McGrath) but I am guessing any changes to the
package will not happen because of what was discussed in the mail list posting above.