[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Tue Nov 30 14:48:08 CET 2010

Michael Scherer skrev 30.11.2010 14:23:
+> 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.
+
+or basesystem-minimal :)
+
+--
+Thomas
+