[Mageia-dev] RFC: Opening Backports (once again...)

Mon Dec 5 23:56:25 CET 2011

+Now,
+
+here comes the question about backports once again.
+
+We are now 6+ months into Mageia 1, and we are nowhere closer to opening 
+backports that we were at Mageia 1 release time.
+
+Because of that there are 3rdparty repos popping up everywhere...,
+something we hoped to avoid atleast partly when starting this project.
+
+And at current rate we will probably release Mageia "infinity"
+before backports is opened.
+
+
+It has been delayed because of needed infrastructure changes,
+something no-one have had time to do so far...
+
+I know there is "only some coding missing" and "someone should
+do it", buth truthfully there are only a few that knows the
+code used in the buildsystem enough to actually make it happend,
+and they are already othervise busy or overloaded...
+(this is no rant against them, as all here are using their
+  personal free time to help out)
+
+And to be honest I dont see that changing anytime soon...
+
+
+So here is a suggestion to get some value to our endusers:
+
+we add a backports branch on svn
+
+So packages for backports would use:
+
+svn.mageia.org/packages/backports/1/<package>/{current,pristine,releases}
+
+and allow that to be used for backports.
+
+Using a separate branch is also a cleaner way of providing
+backports, and makes it easy to separate changes needed only
+for Cauldron (or backports).
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+