[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Balcaen John balcaen.john at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 23:24:50 CET 2010


On Sunday 28 November 2010 23:10:34 Thomas Backlund wrote:
[...]
> > Would it be possible to have a separate games sub-project, that won't
> > freeze to make releases with the rest of mageia?
> > Instead it would be an always updating repos which is compiled with the
> > latest stable release (or even the previous, if it is possible to have
> > packages that install correctly on both).
> > The project would only have a "testing" and "release" (or another name
> > to
> > avoid confusion with other "release" repos which are frozen), this way
> > you could quickly have new versions of all the games, if they don't
> > need bleeding-edge libraries (I think they rarely does).
> 
> Interesting idea, but problem is that if the games are built against
> some newer system libs, they'll stop working on older releases...
Is it possible to have a « repository » in stable release working as « 
unstable » release : if we push version n+1 in this repository then the 
version n is going to be removed to save spaces ?

Regards,

-- 
Balcaen John



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