[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 17:02:36, nicolas vigier a écrit :
> 
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Indeed, however it helps showing that there's a set of packages which is supported, and another one which is only on behalf of the maintainer. In a community driven distribution, this distinction may remains valid : some packages are officially supported by the distribution, others may or may not be, depending on the maintainer (or lack of maintainer).
> 
> We don't need separate medias to show that there are two sets of
> packages, supported and unsupported. I think using separate medias adds
> useless complexity. We could for instance provide a file on api.mageia.org
> containing the list of officially supported packages. It would also have
> other advantages :
>  - You can see how many unsupported packages and which ones are installed
>    on your system. This is not possible with main/contrib, if you enabled
>    contrib temporarly to install a few packages.
>  - You can change the package status (supported/unsupported) after the
>    release, if needed.
>  - Some packages can have a different support time. On Mandriva, "Base
>    system & components" was supported longer, but it was not clear which
>    packages were part of this.
>  - This file could also list known security issues for unsupported
>    and supported packages.
>  - Some packages have a lot of optional plugins, and we build them all,
>    adding a lot of build requires. With main/contrib separation we need
>    to add all the build dependencies to main, even if most of them are
>    not runtime dependencies.
> 

Indeed maintaining the list of supported packages outside the repository is an interesting approach (better yet that misc's tag based proposal, I think).

Regards

Samuel Verschelde