[Mageia-sysadm] Packages SVN

Wed Nov 3 18:16:29 CET 2010

Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:
+
+>> > If we treat this content like we treat the tarballs, then we could
+>> > workaround the problem, no ?
+>> 
+>> How so?
+>
+> Well, in fact, it depend on what we do not want to include.
+>
+> For data ( icones, theme, images ), we can simply put them outside of
+> the svn, like we plan to do for tarballs. 
+
+The plan is to put tarballs in an additional SVN, right?
+We still have to deal with that.
+
+>> > So this would also mean we will import only after having cleaned the
+>> > various packages ?
+>> >
+>> > This mean then that a review must be started ASAP ( in my humble
+>> > opinion ).
+
+[...]
+
+>> But we should check with the board if we want to go that far.
+>
+> Sure. But what is exactly the question :) ?
+
+Do we filter potentially trademarked/copyrighted content in the src
+packages before initial import?
+Or do we import the whole Mandriva SVN as is to bootstrap?
+
+IHMO, we shouldn't take the risk of hosting Mandriva material, even if
+this will slow down the process.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+