[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Tue Nov 30 12:04:49 CET 2010

+Le mardi 30 novembre 2010 11:37:42, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
+> 
+> So, after reading all different opinions here and discussing with 
+> founders, here is the idea:
+> 
+> We start of with  3 medias: core, nonfree, tainted and 3 debug medias:
+> debug_core, debug_nonfree, debug_tainted. In order to avoid confusion,
+> we wont use the name "restricted" as it was used in MDV commercial products.
+> 
+> Now all of theese medias will have their 5 submedias: release, updates,
+> updates_testing, backports, backports_testing.
+> 
+> That brings us to 30 medias in total :)
+> 
+> The details of the media layout suggestion is also at the end of this
+> mail, and at: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mirrors_policy
+> 
+> 
+> Now...
+> 
+> We wont blindly import every package from cooker, instead  we'll
+> start off the import with basesystem (as in bootable system with
+> shell access), compiler and rpm tools (and of course their buildtime
+> depencies). When all of that is imported and rebuilt, we have a working 
+> buildsystem / base to build from.
+> 
+> Then we to go on with and start importing X, the different
+> DE's and every other package needed to build a full distro.
+> 
+> By doing it this way, we get a clean start, every package rebuilt,
+> and no old/unmaintained stuff in the beginning.
+> 
+> Then as more maintainers join, I guess more packages will be imported
+> from cooker and other sources. And packages can always be requested.
+> 
+> As for those that want the core/extra split:
+> We already tried it with main/contrib split. And I know mdv is now
+> trying to refine what belongs in main or not, but thats for mdv
+> to work through the "problem" as it wont be an easy task.
+> 
+> For us I think the best way for now is to start with this suggested
+> layout, and see if it works well for us. Remember, as Michael pointed
+> out, this is a community supported distro, and only time will tell how
+> well the community actually will support their distro.
+> 
+> Point is, if we later decide this is not working well, we can always
+> review the decisions and if decided do the split.
+> 
+> Can we reach an agreement that this is the way to start the distro?
+> 
+
+OK for me provided support policy matters are not discarded forever but only delayed to allow things to start.
+
+It would be great to start QA Team's organization as soon as possible. I don't think we need to wait for the BS and the packages to begin thinking about those matters.
+
+Regards
+
+Samuel
+
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