Here’s some Linux sofware I’ve pulled together. Nothing much of my own yet, but give me time ...

UPDATED 15^th February 2008 smart/apt/yum for Fedora 8 (Werewolf)

I’ve pulled together a small number of RPMs for my RedHat/Fedora box, currently at F8 (Werewolf). These are all either ported from other distro.s, (see .spec files for details) or crafted myself from the raw tarballs. If they’re mine, I apologise if I’ve stuffed up the dependancies — please let me know of you find any mistakes.

There are also yum 2.0 headers available for the FC5–FC7 RPMs. See the actual directories for details.

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• All RPM–related contact to rpms at fnxweb dot com please.
• Find the RPMs in this directory.
• You may download the public GPG key for the signed RPMs here.
• There’s a small script I’ve written which uses gnome-osd, and controls XMMS or BeepMP and your CD player from multimedia keys (or any you choose to bind). I’ve RPM’d it now, so it’s in the repository. Plus there’s an RPM of a GNOME docklet plugin for BeepMP.
• I keep a pretty up–to–date version of Vim in the repository, built for GNOME 2 with the RedHat patches, and one of my own to aid local system customisation on top of RedHat’s.
• Best way to install these RPMs? I use the smart package manager. You can also use yum. Finally, there’s apt (then synaptic — follow the instructions on the APT site). Use the following configurations:
  
  • smart
    Put the following lines in /etc/smart/channels/fnx.channel :
    
    # Fedora 8 - i386 - Extras
    [fnx]
    name=Fedora 8 - i386 - FNX
    baseurl=http://repos.fnxweb.com/fedora/8/i386
    components=fnx
    type=apt-rpm
    
    
  • yum
    
    Put the following lines in /etc/yum.repos.d/fnx.repo :
    
    # FNXweb RPMs (F8)
    name=Fedora 8 - i386 - FNX
    baseurl=http://repos.fnxweb.com/fedora/8/i386
    failovermethod=priority
    
    
  • apt
    Put the following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fnx.list :
    
    # FNXweb RPMs (F8)
    rpm http://repos.fnxweb.com/ fedora/8/i386 fnx
    rpm-src http://repos.fnxweb.com/ fedora/8/i386 fnx
    
    
  • You can also use the no–longer updated configurations for FCs 3-6.

  Yum headers are also present; sorry, older repos are gone, to save my webspace.

  Yes, I’ve cheated and put noarch RPMs into the i386 directory ...