[Mageia-dev] How to forbid submission of some tainted packages to core ?

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Sat Jul 16 12:16:51 CEST 2011


Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 12:12:15, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 à 11:42 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> > Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 02:45:04, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > > Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 à 01:17 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> > > > Some packages must be submitted only to tainted. Is there already a
> > > > way to prevent a wrong submit to the core section, when a package
> > > > builds without buildrequires in tainted ?
> > > > 
> > > > If yes, what is the way, and if not, shouldn't we define a standard
> > > > way to do that in the spec files ?
> > > 
> > > We could add a requies to some dummy rpm that is present in tainted
> > > only.
> > > 
> > > But I think this problem would not occurs often. If someone push it
> > > without saying where to go, it should go to the proper repository.
> > > 
> > > And if someone push it to core, we should assume that he know what he
> > > does. There is no way to push by error to core, as you would need to
> > > add specific option ( iirc ).
> > 
> > You mean that I can type "mdvsys submit transcode" and it will know that
> > it must not go to core but to tainted ? Based on what information ?
> 
> Based on the fact the package is already in tainted, iirc.
> 
> It was the case in mandriva for contribs/main, so it should still work.

Can I test ? And if the package lands into core, are you ready to delete it ? 
:)

Samuel


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