Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week36

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 36/2007

Most important happenings

• EPEL SIG tried alternative meeting time (23:00 UTC). The participation was nearly identical to meetings taking place at the old time. More discussion will likely occur on how to engage more EPEL involvement.

• Stahnma is still investigating the best way to deal with package information to ensure that EPEL is not stepping on packages from RHEL/RHN. Thus far a list of channels with package information is available at stahnma.fedorapeople.org/rhn.

• Nirik is working on setting up the security groups for EPEL so updates can match be CVEs etc.

• Nirik will send out information to the list on the best way to notify EPEL if a package needs to be pulled because it conflicts with RHEL/RHN content.

• Some discussion with with CentOS developers. CentOS developers would like to have a bit more collaberation and ensure that if a package requires updating for EPEL that CentOS be made aware of it also. (See https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00021.html )

EPEL SIG Meeting

Attending

From the Steering Committee:

• mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
• nirik (KevinFenzi)
• stahnma (MichaelStahnke)

Missing from the Steering Committee:

• knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
• dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
• quaid (KarstenWade)
• Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)

Other Participants

• jwb
• ivazquez
• rsc

Full Log

https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00010.html

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors: unknown -- looks like we'll have it next again next week!

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 636

Number of binary packages: 1244

There are 37 new Packages:

• amtterm | Serial-over-lan (sol) client for Intel AMT
• dfu-programmer | A Device Firmware Update based USB programmer for Atmel chips
• dstat | Versatile resource statistics tool
• erlang | General-purpose programming language and runtime environment
• gkrellm | Multiple stacked system monitors in one process
• gkrellm-volume | GKrellM volume plugin
• hddtemp | Hard disk temperature tool
• iftop | Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
• imlib | An image loading and rendering library for X11R6
• jhead | Tool for displaying EXIF data embedded in JPEG images
• libcdio | CD-ROM input and control library
• libmodplug | Modplug mod music file format library
• libmpcdec | Musepack audio decoding library
• perl-CGI-Simple | Simple totally OO CGI interface that is CGI.pm compliant
• perl-CGI-Untaint-date | Validate a date
• perl-CGI-Untaint | Process CGI input parameters
• perl-Class-Trigger | Mixin to add / call inheritable triggers
• perl-Class-Whitehole | Base class to treat unhandled method calls as errors
• perl-Date-Simple | Simple date object for perl
• perl-Exporter-Lite | Lightweight exporting of variables
• perl-OLE-Storage_Lite | Simple Class for OLE document interface
• perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel | Write formatted text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file
• perl-SQL-Abstract | Generate SQL from Perl data structures
• perl-Tie-DBI | Tie hashes to DBI relational databases
• perl-UNIVERSAL-exports | Lightweight, universal exporting of variables
• perl-UNIVERSAL-moniker | Real world naming for classes
• pexpect | Pure Python Expect-like module
• php-extras | Additional PHP modules from the standard PHP distribution
• php-pecl-memcache | Extension to work with the Memcached caching daemon
• python-boto | A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
• rootsh | Shell wrapper for auditing
• shapelib | API in "C" for Shapefile handling
• xbase | XBase compatible database library and tools
• xbiso | ISO extraction utility for xdvdfs images
• xbsql | A SQL wrapper for xbase
• xclip | Command line clipboard grabber
• yum-cron | Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 415

Number of binary packages: 847

There are 32 new Packages:

• createrepo | Creates a common metadata repository
• gmrun | Lightweight "Run program" dialog box with search history and tab completion
• iftop | Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
• pdns | A modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver
• perl-CGI-Simple | Simple totally OO CGI interface that is CGI.pm compliant
• perl-CGI-Untaint-date | Validate a date
• perl-CGI-Untaint | Process CGI input parameters
• perl-Class-Trigger | Mixin to add / call inheritable triggers
• perl-Class-Whitehole | Base class to treat unhandled method calls as errors
• perl-Date-Simple | Simple date object for perl
• perl-Exporter-Lite | Lightweight exporting of variables
• perl-OLE-Storage_Lite | Simple Class for OLE document interface
• perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel | Write formatted text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file
• perl-SQL-Abstract | Generate SQL from Perl data structures
• perl-String-CRC32 | Perl interface for cyclic redundancy check generation
• perl-Tie-DBI | Tie hashes to DBI relational databases
• perl-UNIVERSAL-exports | Lightweight, universal exporting of variables
• perl-UNIVERSAL-moniker | Real world naming for classes
• pexpect | Pure Python Expect-like module
• php-idn | PHP API for GNU LibIDN
• php-pecl-memcache | Extension to work with the Memcached caching daemon
• python-boto | A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
• python-elementtree | Fast XML parser and writer
• python-urlgrabber | A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber
• rootsh | Shell wrapper for auditing
• shapelib | API in "C" for Shapefile handling
• tidy | Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML
• xbase | XBase compatible database library and tools
• xbiso | ISO extraction utility for xdvdfs images
• xbsql | A SQL wrapper for xbase
• xclip | Command line clipboard grabber
• yum | RPM installer/updater

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