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

Wed Jul 13 06:38:44 CEST 2011

Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 23:08, Balcaen John<mikala at mageia.org>  wrote:
+>> On Tuesday 12 July 2011 16:48:58 andre999 wrote:
+>> [...]
+>>>
+>>> For all these reasons, I think that it is much more appropriate to wait to
+>>> be approached by the patent holder.
+>>> (If not ourselves, then some other distro.)
+>> I hope you're not serious when writing thoses lines.
+>
+> Actually, this is what seems to be a standard process in the industry
+> when you read the headlines.
+>
+> One doesn't hear about (software) patents when licensing occurs "as
+> expected", but when someone in the industry challenges (or is
+> challenged by) some other actor patent. Because that's the only way to
+> prove a patent to be ineffective (for various reasons) before it
+> expires.
+>
+> (I am not proposing one or the other option - and it's going out of
+> the initial question in this thread - tmb reframed it well).
+>
+> Romain
+
+Ok.
+Part of my last post seems to have been overlooked.
+It proposes a solution to the problem presented in this thread ... where to put 
+packages which qualify for both non-free and "tainted".
+
+Note that all packages in "tainted" contain ".tainted." in the name.
+
+rsync, used to update the mirrors, permits adding the option
+--exclude '.tainted.'
+to permit excluding such packages if a mirror wants to.
+
+So packages now in the "tainted" repos would be put in core or non-free as 
+appropriate.
+
+And mirrors in affected countries, who choose to opt out of packages now in 
+"tainted" would simply add the above rsync option.
+Most mirrors, which now carry "tainted", would drop the "tainted" repos.  (If 
+they don't, these repos would simply become empty, so no harm done.)
+
+This would have the effect of making packages now in "tainted" more readily 
+available, since it wouldn't be necessary to add these repos.
+Which should please the packagers that make these packages.
+
+We would have to make a few adjustments to show (or not) the packages tagged as 
+"tainted", but that shouldn't be difficult.
+
+So we would eliminate 10 respositories, while keeping the same functionality, 
+as well as solving the non-free vs. tainted problem.
+
+Wouldn't that work ?
+
+-- 
+André
+