[elrepo-devel] Join the ELRepo contributors community

[Alan Bartlett]

2009/11/16 Nikolay Ulyanitsky <lystor at lystor.org.ua>:

> My name is Nikolay Ulyanitsky.

Hello Nikolay,

I recognise recognise your name -- have seen it in various places. :-)

> I want to contribute some packages on ELRepo.

That would be great. You are certainly welcome to do so.

> I have prepared following packages for review:

> 1. nx1001
> This package provides the nx1001 kernel module for the
> ASUS NX1001 PCI Fast Ethernet Network Adapter.

That's interesting. Have you compared it with the existing version?

$ yum --enablerepo=elrepo\* info kmod-ipg
<snip>
118 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Available Packages
Name       : kmod-ipg
Arch       : i686
Version    : 2.09e
Release    : 3.el5.elrepo
Size       : 14 k
Repo       : elrepo
Summary    : ipg kernel module(s)
URL        : http://www.asus.com/
License    : GPL v2
Description: This package provides the ipg kernel module(s) for ASUS
NX1101 Gigabit network
           : adaptors built for the Linux kernel using the i686 family
of processors.

> 5. sdricoh_cs
> This package provides the sdricoh_cs kernel module for the
> Secure Digital and MMC Card Readers that can be found in some notebooks
> like the Samsung P35.
> The real chip name is R5C593. The device seems to be combined with a
> Cardbus bridge and a Firewire Controller. The MMC Cardreader emulates a
> RL5c476 cardbus bridge.

Similar comment and question, as above.

$ yum --enablerepo=elrepo\* info kmod-mmc
<snip>
Available Packages
Name       : kmod-mmc
Arch       : i686
Version    : 0.0
Release    : 3.el5.elrepo
Size       : 36 k
Repo       : elrepo-testing
Summary    : mmc kernel module(s)
URL        : http://www.kernel.org/
License    : GPL v2
Description: This package provides the mmc kernel module(s) for MMC/SD
card support
           : built for the Linux kernel using the i686 family of processors.

Both of your packages, 1 & 5, could be superior to what we currently
provide. Would you care to examine / experiment, please?

Having now read Phil's reply and your subsequent message, I hope you
will happy to contribute and assume you will appreciate why we would
not provide you with the ELRepo signing key. (To use the CentOS
Project as an example, I understand, from what I have been told, that
only three members of the CentOS Development team know their signing
key . . . )

Regards,
Alan.