[Mageia-dev] How to add package into backports_testing

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op dinsdag 05 juli 2011 01:15:52 schreef Eugeni Dodonov:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 16:57, Maarten Vanraes 
<maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>wrote:
> > Op maandag 04 juli 2011 20:31:41 schreef Dexter Morgan:
> > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Maarten Vanraes
> > > 
> > > <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > But skype was available for PWP, which i have.
> > > 
> > > read again what misc wrote :
> > > 
> > > - a package was present in Mandriva 2010.1/2 ( and only in Mandriva,
> > > not in 3rd party repository, not cooker )
> > > 
> > > skype wasn't in main nor contrib
> > 
> > yes, again...
> > 
> > it was in PWP (ie: the powerpack version? which _IS_ from mandriva? which
> > had
> > a _restricted_ repository? _not_ 3rd party???
> > 
> > i don't see where i'm misreading anything here...
> 
> Perhaps Anne could clarify it better than I, but I think that you are
> misreading the part that Powerpack is/was part of Mandriva distribution.
> Powerpack media is *not* part of Mandriva distribution, it is a separate
> 3rd-party media (which happens to come from same company, but it is not
> part of Mandriva distribution), with access allowed only to paying
> customers, which is not shared with the Mandriva distribution.

oic, so you're saying restricted was not a Mandriva distribution repository, 
but a 3rd party repository from the Mandriva company?

Well, if it's like this, i do agree... but it isn't/wasn't all that clear to 
me as a customer of Mandriva.

Thanks for clarifying this now.