[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

Tue Jul 12 23:55:51 CEST 2011

2011/7/12 Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com>:
+> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> wrote:
+>> andre999 skrev 12.7.2011 23:48:
+>>>
+>>> So we could eliminate the "tainted" repos, to facilitate putting packages
+>>> in
+>>> core or non-free as appropriate.
+>>> There may have to be a few adjustments to show (or not) the packages
+>>> tagged
+>>> "tainted", but that shouldn't be difficult.
+>>> Wouldn't that be easier ?
+>>>
+>>> (At the same time, we could choose a name that doesn't indicate that there
+>>> is
+>>> something intrinsically wrong with the package.)
+>>>
+>>
+>> NO.
+>>
+>> The decision to have a separated repo for tainted software is not up for
+>> debate... It has already been discussed and decided long ago.
+>>
+>> as for the question that started this thread:
+>>
+>> "Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?"
+>>
+>> It's simple, and even outlined in the mirrors_policy:
+>> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mirrors_policy
+>>
+>> If there is a package that otherwise matches core or nonfree repos,
+>> but has a possible patent issue it ends up in tainted.
+>>
+>>
+>> As for splitting up tainted in tainted-core/tainted-nonfree,
+>> I dont think it's really worth it, and no-one really argued
+>> for it when we discussed the mirror layout...
+>>
+>> --
+>> Thomas
+>>
+>
+> i can't agree more with you thomas.
+
+That's what I've been saying at the beginning of this discussion
+(before I dived into the argument with andre999)
+
+-- 
+wobo
+