[Mageia-discuss] A proposal of some kind to get point of views & comments

Kristoffer Grundström kristoffer.grundstrom1983 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 20:27:16 CEST 2012


Hi!

Now & then I tend to loose my mind & install Ubuntu on one of my 
computers & the last time I did it I heard about PPA's. I added a PPA & 
noticed how fun it was to test the code that it offers.

This is the explanation of what PPA is & does according to the Ubuntu-page:

*"Personal Package Archives (PPA) allow you to upload Ubuntu source 
packages to be built and published as an apt repository by Launchpad."*

My idea would be something similar.

It starts with the user that gets annoyed how some Mageia-packages that 
are meant to be stable that they aren't.
Instead of having to do the job themselves they can just add a special 
media called user-contrib that contains packages built from git-source 
to be tested in Cauldron & then released as Backport-version when 
confirmed stable enough to see if the issue they had on the officially 
stable package is gone.

I know that it would take many people to build thoose, but I'm willing 
to download git-code & compile & build for Mageia.

I've already managed to compile & build the latest official version of 
Transmission without using the official Mageia patches & I've got NO 
problem at all using the package.

Test theese packages & say what you think:

http://199.91.153.84/c75b5l1s469g/yljxa1e92l5mmix/transmission-debug-2.51%2B-1.x86_64.rpm

http://199.91.152.243/2wm8pbg3k5eg/9th0m5xxslth99a/transmission-2.51%2B-1.x86_64.rpm

/Kristoffer
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