From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B8B87EC10 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:02:56 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAPhg409QRFuw/2dsb2JhbABFtVOBB4IZAQU6PxALDiYSFCghiCIHuhyFSoVkhT1gA5UpgROOb4Jg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,452,1336341600"; d="scan'208";a="163935625" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 21 Jun 2012 20:02:55 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ShliZ-0007XT-1T; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:02:55 +0100 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:02:55 +0100 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" To: Jeffrey Scofield Cc: Caml List Message-ID: <20120621180254.GC12298@annexia.org> References: <20120620074533.GA5827@annexia.org> <9BD38C00-4929-40A6-B13E-AC5403F998D8@psellos.com> <20120621075753.GA21707@annexia.org> <684FEB5F-35BA-4227-8E54-C79AC770D12E@psellos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <684FEB5F-35BA-4227-8E54-C79AC770D12E@psellos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml on Amazon EC2 Instance In RHEL, OCaml is in the Optional channel. Various other people take RHEL packages, recompile them, remove the RHEL branding and add their own. CentOS, Scientific Linux etc. These distros will take all the packages and recompile them and make them available. Since they are not usually concerned with support, they'll just distribute all the packages together. For example, in CentOS the ocaml package is mixed in with all the others: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/Packages/ocaml-3.11.2-2.el6.x86_64.rpm Now I've no idea what Amazon Linux are up to, but they've somehow lost the OCaml package, which is a problem for Amazon Linux. If this is true it doesn't sound like a very competent derivative of RHEL, and I don't know of any other RHEL derivative distribution which has had any problem distributing the OCaml packages. (Even worse really because 'createrepo' would have told them that dependencies are missing ...) In fact according to this: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2012.03-packages/#o it looks like they've missed out all the ocaml-* packages from RHEL. I've no idea what they're doing. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat