The purpose of this repository is to make some of the RPM packages which I have built for myself to be available from a central location online for my own usage. So technically this is a private/personal repository, however there's nothing really private about any of it so I've made the repository available publicly due to popular request of others, in particular my custom build of Firefox 3.6.x for RHEL 5/CentOS 5. As such, this repository is not intended to be a mainstream public rpm repository, and people looking for software packages should look at the major organized rpm repositories before looking here for anything unless they really know what they're doing. For EL5 users, I recommend looking at the EPEL and rpmforge repositories, as well as the rpmfusion repository. There are various other common repositories that are not hard to find with Google as well.
NOTE: Red Hat has now released Firefox 3.6.4 as an official update to RHEL 5.
My builds of firefox 3.6.x were always intended to be an interim solution until Red Hat released an official update to
the new browser, so I'll be discontinuing Firefox 3.6.x from mhrepo. At some point in the near future I plan on making
builds of Firefox 3.7beta available under a separate repository root. I will make an announcement here when the time
comes.
Firefox 3.6.x is the primary package in the repository that most people seem to be interested in. I've been building custom builds of firefox 3.x for EL5 since the betas of firefox 3.5 roughly, and have made them available based on public interest.
To configure your system to use this repository, install the http://mhrepo.co.cc/pub/el/mhrepo-release.noarch.rpm package, then edit the yum config file that it installs and adjust the repository priority if you're using the yum-priorities yum plugin.
The repository mirrorlist file is available from:
http://www.linux.org.uk/~mharris/pub/el/mirrorlist.txt
http://mhrepo.co.cc/pub/el/mirrorlist.txt
If anyone encounters problems with the repository or installing/upgrading any packages, I can be found on irc.freenode.net in the #mhrepo channel, or alternatively you can email me if you're intelligent enough to determine out what my email address is. ;o)
If you've got a Google Wave account, you can keep track of repository announcements by following the mhrepo Announcement Wave