Archive: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!

Mailing list

Noteworthy discussions

• livecd-tools for EPEL

• Conflicts in EPEL

• Package EVR problems in EPEL

Meeting

Next Meeting

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

Last weeks meeting

There was no meeting scheduled for the past week.

Stats

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

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