[Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

Sun Oct 16 15:46:42 CEST 2011

Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
+> Joaquin Mandriva a écrit :
+>> Hello!
+>>
+>> My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net
+>> <http://blogdrake.net/> team. I am
+>> writing to you because I would like to let you know that we have
+>> created a repository with a big amount of good programs for Mageia.
+>> Our final target is to upload all of them to the official Mageia's
+>> repositories.
+>>
+>> We are currently uploading all these packages to the Mageia's BS step
+>> by step, because there are few people of us to do so. Also, also we
+>> don't have too much time because we also take care of Blogdrake,
+>> Mageia's news and the translations English to Spanish.
+>>
+>> Meanwhile, you can use and enjoy our repository in this way:
+>>
+>> urpmi.addmedia --wget --distrib ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/i586
+>>
+>> The x86_64 repository is not finished yet, but you still can add it in
+>> this way:
+>>
+>> urpmi.addmedia --wget --distrib
+>> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/x86_64
+>>
+>> Cheers!
+> 
+> Hello
+> Thanks to you...
+> 
+> 
+> Just one thing to correct : your repos addresses are :
+> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/free/i586/
+> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/free/x86_64/
+> 
+> nevertheless I could surf through your repos :
+> Some of the rpms you propose reply to rpm requests already done or that
+> I was going to write (reading my thoughts ?)
+> 
+> :)
+> 
+> First thing I must say : it's a very good idea to upload these packages
+> to the BS and join the packagers team instead of providing third party
+> repos that will soon create compatibility problems (as in the past for
+> Mandrake and Mandriva with Thac's or MIB or others)
+> 
+> The second thing is : before uploading them you will have to be careful
+> with the repos policy (core tainted non-free)
+> In your own repo, there is a problematic package : faac (and libfaac0
+> libfaac-devel) which is both non-free and tainted ...
+> After long dicussions on the mailing list a meeting decision was not to
+> provide it at the moment (nor the packages built with it...)
+> If a non-free-&-tainted repo is created for Mageia2, in the future, it
+> will be then allowed ... wait and see !
+> 
+> 
+> 
+> 
+I was thinking about a workaround to the problem of "non-free_&_tainted"
+rpms in Mageia
+
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2833
+
+Some multimedia programs can't correctly handle files containing aac
+sound (*.aac *.mp4 *.m4a) because faac and faac-devel are not provided.
+And that's really missing !!!
+
+
+They can't and won't be backported to Mageia1 official repos...
+
+Perhaps a new "non-free & tainted" repo will exist for Mageia2
+
+
+Actually for Mageia1 Blogdrake might provide a third repo for this dozen
+of srpms (even if the existence of third repo is not riskless)
+
+Picking their last spec file from Mageia, and modifying the plf or
+tainted conditionnal building options to allow building with
+faac-devel... wouldn't be too much difficult and wouldn't bring much
+compatibility problems
+
+If the version number is the same as in mageia repos, a "twisted"
+distsuffix would allow to "update" to them from core or tainted version
+(the same way as "tainted" distsuffix allows to update from a core release)
+and wouldn't prevent to update to a core or tainted new version later if
+provided in official updates repo
+
+
+But... there's the :
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317
+would it add other problems to this ?
+
+But too there wouldn't exist QA for them
+
+What do you think (on Mageia side and on Blogdrake side) ?
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