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You can find a list with this package and much more in: ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/incoming/MGA/joaquin/mageia.txt Regards. 2011/10/17 Philippe DIDIER <[email protected]> > andre999 a écrit : > > Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > >> Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > >> > >>> Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : > >>> > >>>> Hello! > >>>> > >>>> My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net > >>>> <http://blogdrake.net/> team. I am > >>>> writing to you because I would like to let you know that we have > >>>> created a repository with a big amount of good programs for Mageia. > >>>> Our final target is to upload all of them to the official Mageia's > >>>> repositories. > >>>> > >>>> We are currently uploading all these packages to the Mageia's BS step > >>>> by step, because there are few people of us to do so. Also, also we > >>>> don't have too much time because we also take care of Blogdrake, > >>>> Mageia's news and the translations English to Spanish. > >>>> > >>>> Meanwhile, you can use and enjoy our repository in this way: > >>>> > >>>> urpmi.addmedia --wget --distrib > >>>> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/i586 > >>>> > >>>> The x86_64 repository is not finished yet, but you still can add it in > >>>> this way: > >>>> > >>>> urpmi.addmedia --wget --distrib > >>>> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/x86_64 > >>>> > >>>> Cheers! > >>>> > >>> Hello > >>> Thanks to you... > >>> > >>> > >>> Just one thing to correct : your repos addresses are : > >>> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/free/i586/ > >>> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/free/x86_64/ > >>> > >>> nevertheless I could surf through your repos : > >>> Some of the rpms you propose reply to rpm requests already done or that > >>> I was going to write (reading my thoughts ?) > >>> > >>> :) > >>> > >>> First thing I must say : it's a very good idea to upload these packages > >>> to the BS and join the packagers team instead of providing third party > >>> repos that will soon create compatibility problems (as in the past for > >>> Mandrake and Mandriva with Thac's or MIB or others) > >>> > >>> The second thing is : before uploading them you will have to be careful > >>> with the repos policy (core tainted non-free) > >>> In your own repo, there is a problematic package : faac (and libfaac0 > >>> libfaac-devel) which is both non-free and tainted ... > >>> After long dicussions on the mailing list a meeting decision was not to > >>> provide it at the moment (nor the packages built with it...) > >>> If a non-free-&-tainted repo is created for Mageia2, in the future, it > >>> will be then allowed ... wait and see ! > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> I was thinking about a workaround to the problem of "non-free_&_tainted" > >> rpms in Mageia > >> > >> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2833 > >> > >> Some multimedia programs can't correctly handle files containing aac > >> sound (*.aac *.mp4 *.m4a) because faac and faac-devel are not provided. > >> And that's really missing !!! > >> > >> > >> They can't and won't be backported to Mageia1 official repos... > >> > >> Perhaps a new "non-free& tainted" repo will exist for Mageia2 > >> > >> > >> Actually for Mageia1 Blogdrake might provide a third repo for this dozen > >> of srpms (even if the existence of third repo is not riskless) > >> > >> Picking their last spec file from Mageia, and modifying the plf or > >> tainted conditionnal building options to allow building with > >> faac-devel... wouldn't be too much difficult and wouldn't bring much > >> compatibility problems > >> > >> If the version number is the same as in mageia repos, a "twisted" > >> distsuffix would allow to "update" to them from core or tainted version > >> (the same way as "tainted" distsuffix allows to update from a core > >> release) > >> and wouldn't prevent to update to a core or tainted new version later if > >> provided in official updates repo > >> > >> > >> But... there's the : > >> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317 > >> would it add other problems to this ? > >> > >> But too there wouldn't exist QA for them > >> > >> What do you think (on Mageia side and on Blogdrake side) ? > >> > > > > A personal POV from the Mageia side -- > > It could be a good way to evaluate the need for a Nonfree+Tainted repo, > > as well as providing a ready source for those interested in such > packages. > > > > Maybe another approach could be to try to separate nonfree and tainted > > parts, so that either > > - nonfree packages could optionally use "tainted" packages if installed, > or > > - "tainted" packages could optionally use nonfree packages if installed, > > each in their respective current repos. > > Which won't work if a particular component is necessarily both nonfree > > and "tainted". > That's the problem : we have already tainted packages ... they have been > built without faac-devel and don't require faac which is both tainted > and non-free :-( > If they are built with faac the binaries become non-free (not LGPL) and > stay tainted ... (they can't be splitted in parts) > it's true for avidemux, mencoder, handbrake, audiokonverter, and some > others (the list is in the bug report > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2833) > it's an aporia ! > I don't want to argue again about the decision for the Mageia's repos ! > only need to find a way to get working binaries for my purpose... and I > think I'm not alone to have to work with a quasi standard for multimedia > files on internet. > plf allowed that for Mandriva ... > no third repo allows this for Mageia > If I'm alone, never mind, I know how to build my own (two lines to > modify in a spec file and => rpmbuild -ba ... that's all folks! ) > If newcomers try Mageia and has to be taught how to build a rpm, they > better will use debian or fedora or ubuntu or opensuse that have quasi > official third repos for this problem... > > > > > my 2 cents :-) > > > my 2 λεπτες > >
