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On 21/04/12 00:00, William Tracy wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:47 PM,
Sebastian sebsebseb <span dir="ltr"><<a
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href="mailto:sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com">sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com</a>></span>
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<div class="h5">As for the PPA's themselves or the
something like it, would need a website for it like they
have for Ubuntu <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas"
target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas</a>
and they should only be offered on the site from people
who have gone through the Mageia packaging process and
become trusted packagers I think.</div>
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<div>My understanding was that part of the attraction of
Ubuntu's PPAs was that any registered user could create one,
making it an easy way for developers to distribute their
software until Ubuntu proper gets around to creating an
official package.</div>
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Yes that's correct anyone that knows how can make a PPA for Ubuntu.
As for registration I think that has never been needed to make PPA's
for Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
Users of any PPA have to trust the person or people who made it,
that they aren't getting malicious software from the PPA. So on a
official Mageia PPA's or something like PPA's sub site, they could
be offered, but I think should only be from people who have gone
through the Mageia packaging process and that are trusted, as I
suggested in the other message.<br>
<br>
With Ubuntu Some PPA's used to be sort of supported by the Ubuntu
Community, more recently in general PPA's with Ubuntu are supported
more, because the software centre can install them for example.<br>
<br>
Before PPA's if I remember correctly Wine used to have a special
repo for Ubuntu, but for a rather long time those that want the very
latest final version can install the PPA instead. Pidgin also offers
a PPA and has done for a rather long time for it's latest final
version.<br>
<br>
With Ubuntu 11.04 which uses GNOME 2 with their patches as the fall
back mode, and Unity on top of GNOME 2 as the default, there was
also a PPA made for GNOME 3. I tried the PPA out in both Beta 2 and
the final I think, and it didn't work that well for me, and this
seems to have been the case for a lot of other people as well, but
it was known to be buggy.<br>
<br>
So put simply all a PPA tends to be is a way for users to easily
install later versions of software without having to use a
development version of the distribution that offers a later version
of the software that is wanted. Or without waiting until the next
version of the distribution.<br>
<br>
PPA's are repo's as a result the software in those repo's will be
updated usually at times, and proper updates not just security.<br>
<br>
With PPA's it's ok for them to be buggy as mentioned in my previous
email, because unlike backports they probably haven't gone through a
proper QA process.<br>
<br>
Backports from Cauldron to Mageia 2 it seems will probably start
being offered soon after Mageia 2 has been released, but I don't
know for sure. However I do think that having something like PPA's
as well for Mageia would be quite a good thing indeed! As long as
users understand that they may be buggy, and shouldn't be relied on
to much if wanting loads of later software, than what the current
latest stable version of Mageia at the time is offering. Many
Mageia users who would like a lot of later versions of software than
what the repo's of a final version of Mageia has, should probably be
running Cauldron instead really.<br>
<br>
From Sebastian sebsebseb<br>
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