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<B>Michael Scherer</B>
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<PRE>Le jeudi 07 juillet 2011 à 17:50 -0300, Eugeni Dodonov a écrit :
><i> Hi folks,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> don't know if it was discussed previously, but I could not find it in the
</I>><i> archives.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Are there some plans for any kind of ppa-like repos in Mageia/BS? There are
</I>><i> some cases where they could be useful. One special case which comes to mind
</I>><i> is wayland packaging - I was discussing with Florian Hubold about it, and
</I>><i> the trick about them is that:
</I>><i> - they require latest xorg stuff from git
</I>><i> - they require latest mesa from git
</I>><i> - they require latest libxkbcommon from git
</I>><i> - they require latest pixman from git
</I>><i>
</I>><i> and it is, well, madness to provide such versions in main repositories.
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</I>><i> However, it would be a nice case for providing them in some sort of private
</I>><i> branch (like for example people.mageia.org/<branch>/ or something), using
</I>><i> the same BS infrastructure (iurt/jurt) to compile them and generate hdlists
</I>><i> automatically.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I did some custom scripts to do this task, but before reinventing the wheel
</I>><i> for either mandriva or mageia BS, perhaps there is something already planned
</I>><i> in this sense...
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There is nothing planned yet. ( we do not even have enough servers to
have a shell for packagers or others :/ )
The problem I see with ppa is they lack basic quality control, they
often interfere with upgrade and when they break, people blame the
distribution. There is also non user friendly inter-ppa requires.
So personally, I would rather try to ease the usage of iurt first ( wit
documentation , etc ) and let people host everything them self. Having
this on our servers would mean to most people we endorse the package,
and I think we shouldn't unless we are sure of the quality
( which usually mean "adding rules that people will complain about until
they open 3rd party repository saying how much we are useless because we
couldn't provide 'foo' rpm in a updated optimized version" ).
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Michael Scherer
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