[Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos

Thu Jul 7 23:38:46 CEST 2011

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 18:29, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+
+> 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" ).
+>
+
+The only major problem with hosting iurt/jurt/whatever is that it requires
+either full repositories locally or very good network connection for
+everything, and - in both cases - tons of disk space..
+
+But yes, I got your point, and I agree with it. Perhaps instead of full
+'PPAs' it would be possible to have some sort of iurt-powered public
+repositories. For example, http://people..../~user dirs with 'upload'
+directory there, where someone could put src.rpms and they would be
+recompiled and stored in http://people.../~user/{i586,x86_64,arm} when done,
+with full hdlists.
+
+But as for QA, yes, this is true. Probably the best solution for it was
+Meego's one, in the n800 era - when you install something from non-official
+repo it shows a window saying 'You are installing something that could break
+everything, so you are on your own, good luck'. For install/update, perhaps
+it could be solved by adding some new installer/updater window which would
+check of enabled urpmi medias, and if there are any non-official one, it
+could show a warning or something like it as well.
+
+-- 
+Eugeni Dodonov
+http://eugeni.dodonov.net/
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