RPMs not in Fedora

Here is a collection of RPMs that I would like to push to Fedora. Some of them will never, ever be in Fedora because of licensing issues. If an RPM disappears from this page, then it has been migrated into Fedora and you should fetch it from the official source.

Some of these RPMs deal with CPU types not supported by the Fedora rpm tools. When I started this project, I was only concerned with Prescott CPUs, but decided to throw in nocona support too, while I was at it. Since then I have acquired access to some EM64T-capable Pentium 4s, a laptop with a Pentium-M, and a Core2Duo machine, so I added support for those platforms also. To get started, you need to install the modified rpm and redhat-rpm-config packages. If you use the Intel compiler, then you should also install the intel-extras package. Then you will be ready to create your very own CPU-optimized binary RPMs.

Note: Due to space problems, I am not able to post binary RPMs on this web page. Furthermore, some of the programs listed here are distributed under non-free licenses, so I cannot provide the sources either. Hence, all you get is either src or norsrc RPMs. If some RPM repository would like to pick up the RPMs that cannot be transferred to Fedora, let me know.

The Packages

Modified, Improved, or Fixed Fedora Packages

These packages exist in Fedora. I have modified, improved, or repaired them in some way, usually in a way that is unacceptable to Fedora for some reason.

Packages that Fedora can take

These packages are freely distributable. I provide source RPMs for each.

“Free” Packages with Fedora-incompatible licenses

These packages are supposedly free software or open source, but include license terms that are incompatible with the Fedora distribution.

Non-Free Packages

These packages have restrictive licenses. I do not provide the sources. You have to download those yourself after signifying your agreement with the license terms. All I provide is a nosrc RPM.

Packages without licenses

These packages are clearly intended to be free, given statements by their authors. However, the authors have failed to provide a clear license, making them unacceptable to repositories with lawyers.


Last modified: Tue Aug 5 10:07:26 MDT 2008 by Jerry James