Status of RPM Fusion for EL

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Hi all!

While getting RPM Fusion in shape for it's official launch a bit of work 
was done to also get the repos for EL ready. Here is the current status 
afaics:

- I tried to get make to get all the deps for mplayer, xine and vlc and 
those apps build for EL; that is not yet finished completely, but xine 
is there now; mplayer and vlc should hopefully be not that hard to 
achieve once a few details get sorted out (see below)

- I'd say we should slowly spread the news that people can start testing 
the EL repos from RPM Fusion. To enable them use this command:

> rpm -ivh \
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/testing/5/x86_64/rpmfusion-free-release-5-0.1.noarch.rpm \
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/testing/5/x86_64/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-5-0.1.noarch.rpm

Note: The EL testing repos from RPM Fusion are enabled in those rpms; 
also not that  you need to have EPEL-testing enabled for now, as some 
packages from rpmfusion-free for EL require packages that are currently 
in EPEL testing

- we need to get libdvdread and libdvdnav into EPEL for a proper working 
mplayer; Dominik and Rex afaik looked into that, but there are some 
issues that need to be solved; is there any progress here?

- would be nice to get lirc into EPEL, as xine and likely some other 
apps can use it; pinged j-rod about it yesterday on IRC, no response yet

- I lost track what vlc version/spec file is the best to use for EL5; 
likely the one from F-9 or devel, but I want to talk to kwizwart about 
it to be sure before moving on

- gstreamer-plugins-{bad,ugly} -- lost track here; last mail on that 
topic iirc was this:
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-September/001003.html
Hans, do you want to work on that? Is somebody else interested to drive 
this forward (and coordinate with Hans)?

- I haven't worked out a solution for kmods yet; a mix of the current 
kmod stuff in fedora (including akmods) and the stuff from RHEL itself 
would be the best, but that will take a while to get in place

- there are a whole lot of other packages in RPM Fusion free and nonfree 
that are not yet built for EL, as I didn't consider them really crucial. 
You want to know if your packages are in the repos? Then take a look here:
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/testing/5/
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/testing/5/
If you miss one of your packages then put a branch request for it in 
bugzilla or ping me on IRC

Also it's IMHO time for those with a special interest in the EL branch 
(Nikolay, lkundrak, rsc, ???) to step up and look what other packages 
from the Fedora brach you want to see in the EL branch. Ping their 
maintainers and ask them for their EL plans; if they don't want to 
maintain their packages for EL then consider to maintain the package 
yourself for EL.

CU
knurd