what about making the drupal product available in rpm format

i know, installation of the tar ball is so easy that this should not be necessary. however, there are at least two advantages
1) the process of upgrading is not triggered by a sysop who follows the community but by a iup2date alike process. when security vulnerabilities are known, this could come in very handy

2) the rpm might be included in distro's, enhancing the reach of drupal

disadvantages: someone has to make the package and make sure the latest stable version is available in rpm as well

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killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented

The problem is that we'd need somebody who maintains the rpm. The Debian
package is already sort of unmaintained (still 4.0 IIRC).

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented

I have to apologize to Hugh Espuny, the .deb maintainer: It is up to date (4.1).

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented

We have a new Debian maintainer, but apparently nobody wants to do a .rpm. Not too much of a loss.

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mok000 commented

I have packaged 4.6.3, and I am willing to maintain the rpm. I plan to package several themes and modules as well.

roball’s picture

roball commented
Version: » 6.x-dev
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active

Dag Wieers is maintaining a drupal6 RPM package for RHEL/CentOS based systems in his "rpmforge (rf)" repository.

Alternatively, the SRPM from the updates channel for Fedora 11+ can be rebuilt. I just did this on a CentOS 5 server:

[root@anet ~]# cd /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
[root@anet SRPMS]# wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/11/SRPMS/drupal-6.15-1.fc11.src.rpm
[root@anet SRPMS]# rpm -i --nomd5 drupal-6.15-1.fc11.src.rpm
[root@anet SRPMS]# cd
[root@anet ~]# rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/drupal.spec
[root@anet ~]# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/drupal-6.15-1.noarch.rpm
roball’s picture

roball commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.