[Mageia-dev] R: Re: looking for developer to create a packager to online update from mandriva to mageia

[Ahmad Samir]

On 22 April 2011 15:03, marcello.anni at alice.it <marcello.anni at alice.it> wrote:
>
>
> ----Messaggio originale----
> Da: ennael at mageia.org
> Data: 22-apr-2011 13.50
> A: "Mageia development mailing-list"<mageia-dev at mageia.org>
> Ogg: Re: [Mageia-dev] looking for developer to create a packager to online
> update from mandriva to mageia
>
> 2011/4/22 marcello.anni at alice.it <marcello.anni at alice.it>:
>> hi,
>>
>> i'm looking for some developers/testers who are interested in creating a
>> simply rpm package that should installed in mandriva 2010.2 system (that
>> doesn't work in previous releases) that:
>>
>> - remove mandriva sources
>> - add mageia sources
>> - start mageiaupdate (or the equivalent of mandrivaonline)
>>
>> reference: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=886
>>
>> possible implementation (quick proposal of tmb):
>>
>> * urpmi –auto-update path would be an online update
>>
>> * maybe a patched mdkonline could be provided too for separate download
>>
>> is there any person who is interested in it?  thank you
>
> Please stop this kind of mail... We are already preparing mdkonline on
> that purpose. Wait for it to be ready
>
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> Marcello
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Anne
> http://www.mageia.org
>
> i don't understand you, anne... wasn't you that told me:
>
>  "Find more people for it then. Otherwise wait for it to be ready"
>

She most likely meant "find more people to continue the package
cleaning that has already started some weeks ago but the people* who
worked on it are buried to their chins doing many other tasks in
preparation for the official release".

* that would be dmorgan (who started the cleaning), who works on
LibreOffice, Texlive, Java and Maven (i.e. enough stuff to drive
anyone mad already :)), beside other stuff.

> i was only doing that. if mdkonline is in a preparation phase you should
> use:
>
> "We are working on mdkonline adapted for this specific case",

Which you should have guessed... since Mageia is using rpmdrake,
drakxtools, drakx-net... etc, after having been cleaned. :)

> not
> "We should use mdkonline adapted for this specific case", because this way i
> understand only a proposal, nothing concrete.
>
>
> cheers,
> Marcello
>



-- 
Ahmad Samir