[Mageia-dev] sync with mandriva

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op donderdag 18 november 2010 07:11:40 schreef Wolfgang Bornath:
> 2010/11/18 Gustavo De Nardin <gustavodn at gmail.com>:
> > The final doc was made by Bogdano and me. Unfortunately the cluster is
> > nonworking right now for me, which seems to be making that HTML
> > unreachable.
> 
> For those who can't find it:
> -----------------------------------------
> From: Gustavo De Nardin (spuk)
> Subject: [Maintainers] New SVN repository plan
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:15:27 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Me and Bogdano have been on and off discussing/planning/doing the needed
> steps for the new SVN repository scheme, and in the latest weeks we
> finished our proposal.  Our conclusions and proposed scheme is described
> here: <http://kenobi.mandriva.com/~spuk/binrepo.html>.  There may still be
> some rough edges.
> 
> This is following the discussions started at the end of 2007:
> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/BuildSystem's_Subversion_Repository_Improvement
> s
> 
> Basic idea is to remove binary files from the main repository.
> 
> Keep in mind, however, that this is not meant to ease maintainers' lifes,
> but to ease administration and management of the SVN repository, while
> trying to not make maintainers' lifes significantly worse.  :]
> 
> Please comment.
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if people keep in mind that sometimes tarballs aren't always fetchable from 
the internetz; then i'm ok with this. also, possibly if the tar is the same as 
the previous version/revision, it could even be fetched from the older 
packages/releases