Call for input: customer contributed RPMS in the unofficial repository

[Michael St. Laurent]

Great idea.  I'm glad Dell is open to it!  ;) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Michael E Brown
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:27 AM
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Call for input: customer contributed RPMS in the 
> unofficial repository
> 
> All,
>      As the maintainer of the unofficial Dell yum repository
> (http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware), I have noticed that we have had
> many customers develop their own solutions for things like:
>    -- raid monitoring (megacli, etc)
>    -- system monitoring plugins things like nagios/etc.
>    -- scripts to interface from openmanage to nagios/etc.
>    -- openipmi interface Dell-specific stuff.
> 
>     I would like to know if anybody is interested in contributing RPMs
> with these things to the unofficial repository for easier use by other
> customers.
> 
>     If there is interest in this, there are quite a few 
> details to work
> out, such as the submission process, security/digital signatures,
> support for different OS, etc. But if it is worthwhile, I have support
> from my management to work on something like this.
> 
>     So, I'd like to start a discussion the list to get 
> people's feedback
> on this idea.
> --
> Michael
> 
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