[Mageia-dev] How to add package into backports_testing

Wed Jul 6 19:41:43 CEST 2011

Op dinsdag 05 juli 2011 01:15:52 schreef Eugeni Dodonov:
+> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 16:57, Maarten Vanraes 
+<maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>wrote:
+> > Op maandag 04 juli 2011 20:31:41 schreef Dexter Morgan:
+> > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Maarten Vanraes
+> > > 
+> > > <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > > > But skype was available for PWP, which i have.
+> > > 
+> > > read again what misc wrote :
+> > > 
+> > > - a package was present in Mandriva 2010.1/2 ( and only in Mandriva,
+> > > not in 3rd party repository, not cooker )
+> > > 
+> > > skype wasn't in main nor contrib
+> > 
+> > yes, again...
+> > 
+> > it was in PWP (ie: the powerpack version? which _IS_ from mandriva? which
+> > had
+> > a _restricted_ repository? _not_ 3rd party???
+> > 
+> > i don't see where i'm misreading anything here...
+> 
+> Perhaps Anne could clarify it better than I, but I think that you are
+> misreading the part that Powerpack is/was part of Mandriva distribution.
+> Powerpack media is *not* part of Mandriva distribution, it is a separate
+> 3rd-party media (which happens to come from same company, but it is not
+> part of Mandriva distribution), with access allowed only to paying
+> customers, which is not shared with the Mandriva distribution.
+
+oic, so you're saying restricted was not a Mandriva distribution repository, 
+but a 3rd party repository from the Mandriva company?
+
+Well, if it's like this, i do agree... but it isn't/wasn't all that clear to 
+me as a customer of Mandriva.
+
+Thanks for clarifying this now.
+