EPEL/Reports/Week04

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 04/2008

Most important happenings

 * We have now more then 1000 different software packages (counting SRPMs) in the EPEL5 repositories for RHEL5/CentOS5. Thanks to all Fedora contributers that participate in EPEL! You made this happen!

Noteworthy discussions

 * livecd-tools for EPEL


 * Conflicts in EPEL


 * Package EVR problems in EPEL

Next Meeting
Wednesday, 20080130 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Last weeks meeting
There was no meeting scheduled for the past week.

General
Number of EPEL Contributors: 169

We welcome 3 new contributors: emunson gouldwp jfearn

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 1019

Number of binary packages: 1913

There are 27 new Packages:


 * ddclient | Client to update dynamic DNS host entries


 * fftw2 | Fast Fourier Transform library


 * grace | Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool


 * kscope | KDE front-end to Cscope


 * libvpd | VPD Database access library for lsvpd


 * mimetex | Easily embed LaTeX math in web pages


 * mogilefs-server | Server part of the MogileFS distributed filesystem


 * nedit | A GUI text editor for systems with X


 * nickle | A programming language-based prototyping environment


 * openser | Open Source SIP Server


 * ovaldi | Reference implementation of the OVAL interpreter


 * pam_mysql | PAM module for auth UNIX users using MySQL data base


 * perl-Alien-wxWidgets | Building, finding and using wxWidgets binaries


 * perl-DBIx-ContextualFetch | Add contextual fetches to DBI


 * perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig | Simplistic interface to pkg-config


 * perl-File-Tail | Perl extension for reading from continously updated files


 * perl-Net-NBName | NetBIOS Name Service Requests


 * perl-SNMP-Info | Object Oriented Perl5 Interface to Network devices and MIBs through SNMP


 * perl-Sub-Uplevel | Run a perl function in an upper stack frame


 * perl-Test-Exception | Library of test functions for exception based Perl code


 * perl-Test-MockModule | Override subroutines in a module for unit testing


 * perl-Tie-IxHash | Ordered associative arrays for Perl


 * perl-UNIVERSAL-can | Hack around people calling UNIVERSAL::can as a function


 * perl-UNIVERSAL-isa | Hack around module authors using UNIVERSAL::isa as a function


 * postgresql-ip4r | IPv4 and IPv4 range index types for PostgreSQL


 * unpaper | Post-processing of scanned and photocopied book pages


 * vnc-ltsp-config | Easy Enabler of VNC remote LTSP desktops

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 618

Number of binary packages: 1150

There are 18 new Packages:


 * ddclient | Client to update dynamic DNS host entries


 * kscope | KDE front-end to Cscope


 * libevent | Abstract asynchronous event notification library


 * libvpd | VPD Database access library for lsvpd


 * mimetex | Easily embed LaTeX math in web pages


 * ovaldi | Reference implementation of the OVAL interpreter


 * pam_mysql | PAM module for auth UNIX users using MySQL data base


 * perl-Alien-wxWidgets | Building, finding and using wxWidgets binaries


 * perl-DBIx-ContextualFetch | Add contextual fetches to DBI


 * perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig | Simplistic interface to pkg-config


 * perl-File-Remove | Convenience module for removing files and directories


 * perl-File-Tail | Perl extension for reading from continously updated files


 * perl-Sub-Uplevel | Run a perl function in an upper stack frame


 * perl-Test-Exception | Library of test functions for exception based Perl code


 * perl-Test-Manifest | Test case module for Perl


 * perl-Test-MockModule | Override subroutines in a module for unit testing


 * perl-Tie-IxHash | Ordered associative arrays for Perl


 * perl-UNIVERSAL-isa | Hack around module authors using UNIVERSAL::isa as a function