Call for input: customer contributed RPMS in the unofficial repository

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:14:37AM +1000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> writes:
> 
> >     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.
> 
> can it be something else than RPM ? (ie: deb's)

I am starting to get deb stuff in place. It is slow as I am a complete
debian noob, but you should be able to take a look at
http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/debian/ (quite bare now) and
http://linux.dell.com/repo/testing/debian/ (more stuff there). I am
getting my open source stuff like firmware-tools and firmware-addon-dell
packaged for debian with some help from my Dell Bangalore counterparts.
(Hi Sandeep!)

I expect that if people in the community stand up and help out, we could
have a pretty decent number of debs in the repository as well. The first
step is to find out who is interested. Next step would be to figure out
how we do it. You might have heard that there is a new wiki in town. I
expect to be able to use the wiki to collaborate to come up with some
plans on how to do this.
--
Michael

Full disclosure: I am a Fedora guy, and most likely will continue to be.
But as long as Dell is paying me to do it, I have no problem learning
new stuff and supporting the debian side as well.