[PlanetCCRMA] CentOS5 support?

[Roy Vestal]

I am definitely interested as well. I've started a small business using 
FC5 with the Planet CCRMA installs of Ardour, Rosegarden, Lilypad, 
Hydrogen + dependancies.  I would love to move to a more "stable" 
platform. I need to upgrade to get Ardour2.

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 09:00 +0200, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> "Wade Nelson" <hollywoodb@fastmail.fm> writes:
>>
>>     
>>> If there isn't, I'm considering rebuilding the SRPMS against CentOS5 and
>>> was wondering if anyone else had similar interest.
>>>       
>> I have already done part of this for RHEL4 and RHEL5 derivatives. I
>> don't have a repository online at the moment for several reasons; I
>> could have one in a few days but most packages are quite out of date.
>>
>> Actually I intend to get back to work as soon as I am able to put
>> together a sane build system, which I am currently working at.
>>
>>     
>>> I'm not sure in the future (figure 2+ years down the road) if it would
>>> be rather simple or rather difficult to keep backporting PlanetCCRMA
>>> packages to CentOS, especially with future Fedora versions supporting
>>> things like PulseAudio.
>>>       
>> >From my experience with CentOS4, many packages build with little or no
>> change. The lisp-based stuff is quite involved, but AFAIK this is the
>> case for Fedora too, or at least it was before Fedora started to
>> include packages like sbcl; I have not really been following these
>> issues closely. The only package I was really unable to build even
>> though I tried was ardour, because of the recent versions of glib/gtk+
>> required for ardour2.
>>     
>
> I've been hinting at getting this done for quite a while :-(
>
> Right now I'm also working again on my build system, I upgraded to
> centos5 and some stuff has to be tweaked. I'm close...
>
> If I do this I would probably only deal with Centos5. One good thing is
> the EPEL repository. Just in the same way that Planet CCRMA packages are
> migrating to Fedora proper, the same thing could happen (maybe at the
> same time?) with Centos5 support and EPEL for RHEL/CentOS 5. 
>
> -- Fernando
>
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