RPM Repository

This is a repository for software that I have packaged, but not written. It is packaged for Fedora; in most cases Fedora Core 4 through 6. Most of them are simple RPM wrappers around a bare 'configure; make; make install', but some of them, notably the polipo package, include init scripts and a sensible default configuration. Source rpms are also available, and you may wish to examine and/or build from those to disable patches I have included in some cases. Not everything I package ends up here, but some of the more useful things do. In some cases, I have not actually done the packaging, but have instead made small changes to a distribution package (e.g., to update it to a newer version, or to apply options that are turned off in the standard distribution).

With the great expansion of Fedora Extras in Fedora Core 6 and the merger between Fedora Core and Fedora Extras in Fedora 7, I am finding it less necessary to build my own packages. Therefore, many of the packages in this repository are rather old. In most cases, there is a Fedora Extras 6 or Fedora 7 package for most of these pieces of software. However, it should be safe to use this repository with current Fedora releases, as the packages are versioned correctly and will be superceded by Fedora packackages where appropriate. Where I find it necessary to package something that is not in Fedora extras, these packages will still be added.

It can be used with yum or up2date (not apt, sorry). A sample yum configuration is:

[carcosa]
name=Carcosa RPM Repository for Fedora 7
baseurl=http://www.carcosa.net/jason/software/repository/
enabled=1
  

You will also need my gnupg public key from here: GPG_PUBLIC_KEY to use this repository from yum or up2date.

You can also browse the repository to list packages here, or to download them without using yum or up2date.

I hope to provide annotations on each package at some time in the future.