repoforge/rpms — pull request #303 by shubes (2013-10-09 20:56:32+00:00)
Title: Initial daemontools-toaster package on repoforge.

This is my first go at this and I don't mean to be presumptuous, so please let me know what I need to do to make this suitable for inclusion on repoforge.

As a little background, I am the project lead on the QMailToaster project, which has been in existence for over 10 years. I took over leadership in Jan'12. Our intention is to foster more community participation in the project development, as well as growing the software in a manner which is more consistent with the rest of the world.

As such, we will be striving to use upstream conventions and packages as much as practical. This will be an evolutionary process, as there are thousands of QMT hosts in production, and we can't change too much at once. This particular package (daemontools-toaster) will become obsolete in several releases from now, but is still a fundamental requirement for several of the other *-toaster packages (there are presently 25 packages in all).

Historically, DJBernstein software was limited to distribution of source only, which QMT has done since its inception. However, DJB software is now public domain, and our intention with the next release is to provide yum repos for el5/6 platforms. We had planned to build our own yum repos, but it occurred to me that we would save a lot of work if they could be hosted at repoforge. The QMT project already depends on some repoforge packages, so this seems appropriate.

Please let me know anything I can do to bring this and other *-toaster packages in line with repoforge conventions.

Thanks.
-Eric 'shubes'