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<H1>[Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos</H1>
<B>Eugeni Dodonov</B>
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<I>Thu Jul 7 23:38:46 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 18:29, Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote:
><i> The problem I see with ppa is they lack basic quality control, they
</I>><i> often interfere with upgrade and when they break, people blame the
</I>><i> distribution. There is also non user friendly inter-ppa requires.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So personally, I would rather try to ease the usage of iurt first ( wit
</I>><i> documentation , etc ) and let people host everything them self. Having
</I>><i> this on our servers would mean to most people we endorse the package,
</I>><i> and I think we shouldn't unless we are sure of the quality
</I>><i> ( which usually mean "adding rules that people will complain about until
</I>><i> they open 3rd party repository saying how much we are useless because we
</I>><i> couldn't provide 'foo' rpm in a updated optimized version" ).
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The only major problem with hosting iurt/jurt/whatever is that it requires
either full repositories locally or very good network connection for
everything, and - in both cases - tons of disk space..
But yes, I got your point, and I agree with it. Perhaps instead of full
'PPAs' it would be possible to have some sort of iurt-powered public
repositories. For example, <A HREF="http://people..../~user">http://people..../~user</A> dirs with 'upload'
directory there, where someone could put src.rpms and they would be
recompiled and stored in <A HREF="http://people.../~user/{i586,x86_64,arm">http://people.../~user/{i586,x86_64,arm</A>} when done,
with full hdlists.
But as for QA, yes, this is true. Probably the best solution for it was
Meego's one, in the n800 era - when you install something from non-official
repo it shows a window saying 'You are installing something that could break
everything, so you are on your own, good luck'. For install/update, perhaps
it could be solved by adding some new installer/updater window which would
check of enabled urpmi medias, and if there are any non-official one, it
could show a warning or something like it as well.
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Eugeni Dodonov
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