On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Fabrice Salvaire f.salvaire@genomicvision.com wrote:
Dear all,
On 25/09/12 18:37, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:29:26 +0200 Fabrice Salvairef.salvaire@genomicvision.com wrote:
Dear all,
I upgraded the Zabbix package to the upstream version 2.0.2. It seems to work fine, except I don't tested everything.
Thus I have the SRPM with the update for the spec file and some of the sources files. How can I provide it to EPEL ?
File a bug against the epel Zabbix package and the maintainer can review and apply your patches.
If I am right the EPEL devel list archive is not searchable and there is no "public container" to put such works: a way to find experimental SRPM for a package, a kind of github infrastructure with a wiki and branches. The SRPM of Greg Swift is certainly much better than my quick upgrade of the 1.8 package, my own is just a RPM version of no more than a personal compilation in order to deploy the agent easily. But how to be aware of it?
To search the epel-devel list i usually use 'site:lists.fedoraproject.org epel-devel' in my google search string.
Historically the primary way I have looked into the state of moving an existing package forward is to contact the package owners. Sometimes if they can't push a newer package into stable they host it in their private space and can tell you about it.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/zabbix
I also tend to check out Fedora's Koji to see what is being built in Fedora, since typically it can be used with Fedora with a minimal amount of work.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4278
And the work on the package was Volker not me, but thanks :)