Florian Hubold a écrit :
Am 19.08.2011 19:48, schrieb Shlomi Fish:
Hi,
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:21:22 +0200
Anne nicolas<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi there
Back online. We are planning our next meeting for 24th of august, 19h
UTC on #mageia-dev. In between we will work on some burning subjects
(backports incis meetiluded) so that we can take final decisions
during this meeting.
As usual and as it's a long time we did not have any meeting, you can
propose some topics to be added. We will need a review on current
mentoring (André ?) and secteam (Stew ?).
Well, one thing that had bitten me twice is that with my ATI Radeon
HD cards,
the Mageia installations from the dual CD were unusable on two computers
I tried due to the lack of the "radeon-firmware" package. After I
installed
that package, and rebuilt the initrds, then the problems were
solved. Still,
it didn't look good at all.
Is this fact peculiar to the dual CD, and is better in the DVDs or do
we not
use radeon-firmeware by default globally? I'd like this discussed in
the next
meeting.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
I'd like to add another thing to the meeting topics:
The discussion about non-free / tainted, which lasted really long,
but AFAICS there is no concensus or decision, and the discussion
has effectively reached a standstill. My tries to get this going again
have not succeeded so far.
For reference, have a look at those:
https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006382.html
https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/007001.html
For some people the situation seems really clear, also to me,
this viewpoint is what tmb expressed in his mail:
https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006560.html
But in the end we need a definitive decision.
In the last reference, tmb responded to my post by noting that the
original mirror policy put _all_ packages subject to patents or similar
restrictions in some countries in "tainted".
Since then, I have noticed that packages in non-free are tagged
"non-free" (in the file name), and almost all packages in "tainted" are
tagged "tainted".
So a simple solution, considering that the consensus is to keep a third
repository, is to tag all packages subject to both conditions as both
"non-free" and "tainted".
And leave them in the "tainted" repository.
We could even have a filter to avoid showing "non-free" items in the
"tainted" repo, for those so concerned.
In any case, if we put both tags for such packages, "non-free" would
always show up in the package name (under "revision" in rpmdrake).
BTW, I think it was an excellent idea to tag the packages with their
repo/classification, if not in "core".
(I still think we could have a better name than "tainted", since there
is nothing intrinsically wrong with the packages.)
--
André
