[Mageia-dev] sync with mandriva

Thu Nov 18 19:11:47 CET 2010

Op donderdag 18 november 2010 07:11:40 schreef Wolfgang Bornath:
+> 2010/11/18 Gustavo De Nardin <gustavodn at gmail.com>:
+> > The final doc was made by Bogdano and me. Unfortunately the cluster is
+> > nonworking right now for me, which seems to be making that HTML
+> > unreachable.
+> 
+> For those who can't find it:
+> -----------------------------------------
+> From: Gustavo De Nardin (spuk)
+> Subject: [Maintainers] New SVN repository plan
+> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:15:27 +0200 (CEST)
+> 
+> Hello.
+> 
+> Me and Bogdano have been on and off discussing/planning/doing the needed
+> steps for the new SVN repository scheme, and in the latest weeks we
+> finished our proposal.  Our conclusions and proposed scheme is described
+> here: <http://kenobi.mandriva.com/~spuk/binrepo.html>.  There may still be
+> some rough edges.
+> 
+> This is following the discussions started at the end of 2007:
+> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/BuildSystem's_Subversion_Repository_Improvement
+> s
+> 
+> Basic idea is to remove binary files from the main repository.
+> 
+> Keep in mind, however, that this is not meant to ease maintainers' lifes,
+> but to ease administration and management of the SVN repository, while
+> trying to not make maintainers' lifes significantly worse.  :]
+> 
+> Please comment.
+> -------------------------------------------
+
+
+if people keep in mind that sometimes tarballs aren't always fetchable from 
+the internetz; then i'm ok with this. also, possibly if the tar is the same as 
+the previous version/revision, it could even be fetched from the older 
+packages/releases
+