[Mageia-discuss] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

Fri Sep 30 23:27:36 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 30 septembre 2011 14:38:15, Joaquin Mandriva a écrit :
+> Hello!
+> 
+> My name is Joaquin, belonging to 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!
+
+Please note that installing packages from such a repository can be very 
+convenient (and it's kind from Blogdrake to provide those packages to users), 
+but like in Mandriva, I would advise to not install too much packages from 
+there (or any other 3rd party repository), because it can make upgrades to the 
+next Mageia distribution (Mageia 2) fail.
+
+So a big thank you to Joaquin and other blogdrake packagers to come towards us 
+and start maintaining those packages from inside (you will maintain them in 
+the long run, including bugs, will you ?), but I would advise to wait for 
+those packages to come to Mageia as updates (for those that were present in 
+Mandriva 2010.2) or backports. Hopefully you'll not wait too much.
+
+To Blogdrake team: I'm very interested in packaging backports, so as soon as 
+backports media will be open, I will be glad to work with you on that, and 
+also to help define the limit between packages that can be backported and those 
+that can't and that you can continue to provide in your media (and which I 
+would still advise not to install, to avoid upgrade problems and simplify user 
+support in Mageia bugzilla :))
+
+Best regards
+
+Samuel Verschelde
+