What software is missing in the Fedora repository? - Page 3

ogetbilo · #31 8th May 2009, 05:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello Rahul:

I have no idea how popular or not MuseScore is ?
http://musescore.org/

I've been helping them out with packaging some rpms for Fedora.
http://musescore.org/en/download

Seve

musescore has been in official Fedora repos for a while now (~1.5 months).

yum install musescore
or
yum install mscore

thunderogg · #32 8th May 2009, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RahulSundaram

Requests for updates of existing software should go into http://bugzilla.redhat.com

A Sonata v1.53 update request was entered in Bugzilla a year ago, so that is how good that works. Bleeding edge?

RahulSundaram · #33 8th May 2009, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thunderogg

A Sonata v1.53 update request was entered in Bugzilla a year ago, so that is how good that works. Bleeding edge?

A few things:

* If you are referring to a bug, it is useful to provide the bug number

* Maintainers are responsible for the packages they own. It is possible that the package in question is orphaned. Most of the people are volunteers and there is always more bugs than there is resources to handle them. So people prioritize. A updated version is a lower priority to bugs and bugs are prioritized according to the severity and some things are just lost in the process as well unfortunately.

* Fedora Project has never claimed that it would absolutely ship the latest bleeding edge software at all times.or even that it is bleeding edge.

* You are welcome to participate and help maintain packages.

tdapple · #34 8th May 2009, 04:16 PM

Shoes for Ruby

http://shoooes.net/

Ruby 1.9

Seve · #35 8th May 2009, 07:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ogetbilo

musescore has been in official Fedora repos for a while now (~1.5 months).

yum install musescore
or
yum install mscore

Hello:

Thanks for the update. I found it under mscore in the repos.

Seve

aleph · #36 9th May 2009, 03:07 AM

Metasploit?

Not sure about the licensing status, though..

RahulSundaram · #37 9th May 2009, 03:17 AM

Hi,

Assuming you are referring to http://metasploit.com/framework/, seems to be under the 3 clause BSD license which is acceptable

Dr.Diesel · #38 9th May 2009, 01:35 PM

How about Amarok 1.4x?

2.x's UI is just not for everybody! 2.1 is better but still a step backwards when compared to 1.4.

RahulSundaram · #39 9th May 2009, 01:51 PM

Hi,

I am not going to be looking at packaging older versions of Amarok. It likely requires gross hacks at the packaging level to make it parallel installable and I think, the way forward is to file bug reports and enhancements requests for things missing. Just like KDE 4, itself, these sort of major rewrites just take time to mature. Of course, you may disagree but then you are free to maintain the package.

Kingsley · #40 10th May 2009, 02:45 AM

Rasmol - It's a neat tool in the Chemistry field for visualizing molecules.
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/

Ard Righ · #41 10th May 2009, 07:08 AM

Python 3 is missing :P

Also, Transmission BT client, which appears to be a default package (?) in F10 is not in any update repo I can find - there are updates for Transmission on the official site, it would be nice to get these.

I've switched to using Deluge BT client, because it is getting updates. Otherwise I would have been happy using the already installed Transmission BT client

If a package is going to be a default install, one would hope it's maintained.

RahulSundaram · #42 10th May 2009, 04:50 PM

Hi,

Python 3 won't go in anytime soon. It is completely incompatible with Python 2.x and is still in a state of flux.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Is...hon3K_Planning

Transmission is maintained well and continues get updates in the devel branch. The maintainer has just chosen for whatever reasons not to push new versions as updates into existing releases.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_guidelines

***Dangermouse*** · #43 11th May 2009, 11:36 AM

firefox.i586 in the x64 repos would be nice.

Jake · #44 11th May 2009, 11:54 AM

Ya know, I just realised, these drivers would be nice!

https://groups.google.com/group/microdia

--

I have to compile these on every single kernel update >_>. Not a problem, but would be handy not to have to.

ogetbilo · #45 11th May 2009, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello:

Thanks for the update. I found it under mscore in the repos.

Seve

Both yum install musescore or yum install mscore should work (through virtual provides). If you are into audio production software, check out the AudioCreation SIG page. We sure do need some extra hands there, in terms of packaging new stuff and/or reviewing new package requests..