On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:39:01PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > >So far the two propasals were subversion and arch. Both them are > >available at debian.org. Alioth could be considered for additional > >facilities, eventually. > > > >Could the team leader (aka wli) do the choices? > > > >In the first case, a decision about svn vs arch is the first step to > >have a (svn|arch).debian.org repository up and running (by mailing > >debian-admin). Alioth repo can be set more easy, instead. > > > >We have a sort of consensus about the contents (debian tree and > >patches-to-vanilla for every arch), too. > > > >So, please let us go ahead. > > > > > > > Look at arch.debian.org. The entire kernel is already available there. > > http://arch.debian.org/arch/linux/linus/linus--mainline/ > > I think that it is possible to trust this repository for development (as > upstream vanilla source), but the Debian source package should still use > the upstream tarball downloaded from kernel.org. This way even if > someone cracks arch.d.o and inserts backdoors, these will not be part of > the Debian kernel.
Like i said, if you want to go with an arch solution, fine with me. Please check in the debian stuff there (maybe under arch/linux/debian, or something such), and provide some easyguidelines on how to use it for a newbie. Friendly, Sven Luther
