[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Tue Nov 30 14:42:57 CET 2010

Balcaen John skrev 30.11.2010 12:50:
+> 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 ?
+>
+
+Well,
+technically it's basesystem-minimal that should be just that: minimal.
+but it will be reviewed as everythng else.
+
+>> 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?
+>
+> [...]
+>> Can we reach an agreement that this is the way to start the distro?
+> Sure (even if i'm not followed for the 2 points before :p )
+>
+
+--
+Thomas
+