Le jeudi 07 juillet 2011 à 17:50 -0300, Eugeni Dodonov a écrit : > Hi folks, > > don't know if it was discussed previously, but I could not find it in the > archives. > > Are there some plans for any kind of ppa-like repos in Mageia/BS? There are > some cases where they could be useful. One special case which comes to mind > is wayland packaging - I was discussing with Florian Hubold about it, and > the trick about them is that: > - they require latest xorg stuff from git > - they require latest mesa from git > - they require latest libxkbcommon from git > - they require latest pixman from git > > and it is, well, madness to provide such versions in main repositories. > > However, it would be a nice case for providing them in some sort of private > branch (like for example people.mageia.org/<branch>/ or something), using > the same BS infrastructure (iurt/jurt) to compile them and generate hdlists > automatically. > > I did some custom scripts to do this task, but before reinventing the wheel > for either mandriva or mageia BS, perhaps there is something already planned > in this sense...
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" ). -- Michael Scherer
