[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

Thu Oct 21 00:44:16 CEST 2010

* Remy CLOUARD (shikamaru at mandriva.org) wrote:
+> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 06:34:24PM +0200, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
+> > Hi,
+> > 
+> > The peoples/ directory is dedicated to contributors and must allow
+> > anyone to share files related to the distribution (testing rpms,
+> > preworks) in an unofficial ways.
+> > How this can be setup in practice still have to be discuss.
+> Hi, I would like to ask some details about this:
+> As some of you might know, I’m using awesome for a window manager and
+> have been providing RPMS for quite some time for it on my website.
+> 
+> May I use the peoples repository to provide it as well as a customized
+> cairo (with xcb enabled) ?
+
+As a mirror manager I say yes: I'll discuss with sys-admin team about
+how we can setup this, with a per user disk space limit (to avoid
+issue).
+
+From a project point of view it is veey different. The mirror tree is
+what some people will see about Mageia and I do think:
+- people content must be related to mageia
+- everything that can be included in the distrib must provide as RPMs
+  using BS
+- people content must respect our policies.
+
+In a nutshell: this must be discuss. Having a people is at time just an
+idea, but it solve a need I had in mandriva to provide some rpms for
+testing purpose.
+
+> 
+> Will users be able to add this as another repository ?
+
+I don't know any process to deny someone to push hdlists and rpms.
+However I don't think it is a good idea to use this space as an
+alternative to oficial mageia. The risk is to confuse people.
+
+Also, I'd like to notice this space is not a way to provide your own
+project, there is platform for that (sourceforge, zarb, gnu, etc...)
+
+> 
+> I must admit the process was quite painful for me up till now, this
+> sounds to me like an easy way to provide and maintain this RPM.
+> 
+> If we switch to git for the VCS, I would just make my own branch on top
+> of the regular cairo/awesome branch, and it would definitely ease this
+> process. WDYT ?
+> 
+> Regards,
+> -- 
+> Rémy CLOUARD
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+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
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