[Mageia-dev] How to forbid submission of some tainted packages to core ?

Sat Jul 16 12:16:51 CEST 2011

Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 12:12:15, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 à 11:42 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> > Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 02:45:04, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> > > Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 à 01:17 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> > > > Some packages must be submitted only to tainted. Is there already a
+> > > > way to prevent a wrong submit to the core section, when a package
+> > > > builds without buildrequires in tainted ?
+> > > > 
+> > > > If yes, what is the way, and if not, shouldn't we define a standard
+> > > > way to do that in the spec files ?
+> > > 
+> > > We could add a requies to some dummy rpm that is present in tainted
+> > > only.
+> > > 
+> > > But I think this problem would not occurs often. If someone push it
+> > > without saying where to go, it should go to the proper repository.
+> > > 
+> > > And if someone push it to core, we should assume that he know what he
+> > > does. There is no way to push by error to core, as you would need to
+> > > add specific option ( iirc ).
+> > 
+> > You mean that I can type "mdvsys submit transcode" and it will know that
+> > it must not go to core but to tainted ? Based on what information ?
+> 
+> Based on the fact the package is already in tainted, iirc.
+> 
+> It was the case in mandriva for contribs/main, so it should still work.
+
+Can I test ? And if the package lands into core, are you ready to delete it ? 
+:)
+
+Samuel
+