[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

Olivier Thauvin nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org
Thu Oct 21 22:48:42 CEST 2010


* Samuel Verschelde (stormi at laposte.net) wrote:
> Le jeudi 21 octobre 2010 00:44:16, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> > In a nutshell: this must be discuss. Having a people is at time just an
> > idea, but it solve a need I had in mandriva to provide some rpms for
> > testing purpose.
> 
> I don't understand very well what kind of packages would go into "people" rather than in dedicated testing media. What would be the difference ?

I can give the example I had on Mandriva: I did some work on 'rpm'
package itself, but since breaking this pakage would have lock the whole
Bs I'd prefer to first have it tested by some people.
This directory is in this case the perfect place. At this time,
"testing" media did not exists thought.

Another example could be the XFCE live Cd done by some people in past,
hosted on distrib-coffee as mandriva where not able to push it on thier
mirror (this issue get solved latelly).

Pushing something on the mageia Mirror need some control. The people
place give the opportunity to contributors to distribute somethings w/o
needing "super user" privileges, but with a clear "unofficial" state.

I am pretty sure some people will find usage to it.

> 
> Regards
> 
> Samuel Verschelde
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Olivier Thauvin
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