CentOS binary packages, etc.

[Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost>]

FYI:

I've gotten clearance to set up a pkgsrc mirror at UW -- Milwaukee.  It 
will be housed in our new data center with a fast Internet2 connection.

In addition to the standard pkgsrc contents, I plan to start doing bulk 
builds for Enterprise Linux (EL6: RHEL, CentOS, etc.)

My goal is to make pkgsrc more accessible to the scientific research 
community, especially large HPC clusters.  I've been raising awareness 
of pkgsrc in the HPC community, but I think the ability to use pkgin on 
EL will make it attractive enough to spur wide adoption (in addition to 
speeding up my own software deployments).

I found the following page, which appears to contain a rather Old 
package set from 2014:

    https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-linux/

1)    Is anyone out there is presently working on bulk builds for EL?  
If so, I would love to coordinate with you so we don't waste our time on 
duplicated effort.

2)    Roughly how long does it take to do a bulk build of the entire 
tree on a single high-end server?  I was thinking of doing builds on one 
of our production clusters, but I'm leaning against it due to some 
issues with leakage of Yum packages into certain builds.  I think it 
would be safer to do the builds on a dedicated server with a minimal 
CentOS installation.

I'm going to apologize in advance right now for the long stretches that 
I'll be incognito.  We're severely understaffed and there will be 
stretches of weeks at a time that I can't work on this, but I *am* 
moving forward as time permits.

Regards,

    Jason

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