[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Tue Nov 30 13:23:02 CET 2010

Le mardi 30 novembre 2010 à 07:50 -0300, Balcaen John a écrit :
+> Le mardi 30 novembre 2010 07:37:42, 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.
+> > 
+> [...]
+> > 
+> > 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.
+> Are you (not specifically you thomas :p)  going to check again the basesystem 
+> dependencies/requirements, if i remember correctly the basesystem in mandriva is 
+> not anymore a « real » basesystem ?
+
+The explicit goal is to be able to boot, and start bash. Not bash and be
+able to do anything useful with it :) 
+( ok, maybe a script with /dev/tcp to say "hello" on irc ).
+
+So if basesystem as a rpm is not enough, we will import what is needed
+to complete it.
+
+> > Then we to go on with and start importing X, the different
+> > DE's and every other package needed to build a full distro.
+> Should not each package imported directly by the maintener here (for the DE),
+> so he's going to import (hopefully ?) only the real requirements so we'll be 
+> able to drop « more » unused packages maybe?
+
+Yes, but we do have some issues, ie, we need to import X and the other
+layers upon which kde, gnome, xfce are built upon. And so we need to do
+the import in the proper order.
+
+And we should make sure that someone take care of theses packages before
+uploading. But this would likely be a topic for the packaging team ( ie,
+comaintainenance, individual maintainance ), that should be started soon
+(tm)
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+