Does Ubuntu streamline the process of adding the PPA to your /etc/apt/sources.list?
If not, then it's the same amount of work to add a URL that is on Ubuntu.com, as it is Apache.com. :) And setting up a reprepro repository is trivial. (I used to be a Debian developer, and maintained the couchdb package for several years, so I am happy to help out here. On 22 May 2013 20:21, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 on moving RPM/DEB meta data into the main source tree. (Jan, these > tools > > expect specific top level dirs/files, but they're usually self-contained. > > As you say, we can change things if it gets cluttered.) > > > > Benoit, what about maintaining rpms/debs on Apache infra? Is there any > > reason we'd want to use Ubuntu PPAs, when we can just set up an APT > > repository with something like reprepro, and stick it on dist.apache.org > . > > > I'm all for having the tools in our repo. The PPA is a good plus for > the (many) user of ubuntu around. I think we could have both. It > shouldn't give more work and would increase our presence around imo. > > - benoit > -- NS
