[Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos

Thu Jul 7 23:29:04 CEST 2011

Le jeudi 07 juillet 2011 à 17:50 -0300, Eugeni Dodonov a écrit :
+> Hi folks,
+> 
+> don't know if it was discussed previously, but I could not find it in the
+> archives.
+> 
+> Are there some plans for any kind of ppa-like repos in Mageia/BS? There are
+> some cases where they could be useful. One special case which comes to mind
+> is wayland packaging - I was discussing with Florian Hubold about it, and
+> the trick about them is that:
+>  - they require latest xorg stuff from git
+>  - they require latest mesa from git
+>  - they require latest libxkbcommon from git
+>  - they require latest pixman from git
+> 
+> and it is, well, madness to provide such versions in main repositories.
+> 
+> However, it would be a nice case for providing them in some sort of private
+> branch (like for example people.mageia.org/<branch>/ or something), using
+> the same BS infrastructure (iurt/jurt) to compile them and generate hdlists
+> automatically.
+> 
+> I did some custom scripts to do this task, but before reinventing the wheel
+> for either mandriva or mageia BS, perhaps there is something already planned
+> in this sense...
+
+There is nothing planned yet. ( we do not even have enough servers to
+have a shell for packagers or others :/ ) 
+
+The problem I see with ppa is they lack basic quality control, they
+often interfere with upgrade and when they break, people blame the
+distribution. There is also non user friendly inter-ppa requires.
+
+So personally, I would rather try to ease the usage of iurt first ( wit
+documentation , etc ) and let people host everything them self. Having
+this on our servers would mean to most people we endorse the package,
+and I think we shouldn't unless we are sure of the quality 
+( which usually mean "adding rules that people will complain about until
+they open 3rd party repository saying how much we are useless because we
+couldn't provide 'foo' rpm in a updated optimized version" ).
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+