[Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

[Philippe DIDIER]

Joaquin Mandriva a écrit :
> Hello!
> 
> My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net
> <http://blogdrake.net/> team. I am
> writing to you because I would like to let you know that we have
> created a repository with a big amount of good programs for Mageia.
> Our final target is to upload all of them to the official Mageia's
> repositories.
> 
> We are currently uploading all these packages to the Mageia's BS step
> by step, because there are few people of us to do so. Also, also we
> don't have too much time because we also take care of Blogdrake,
> Mageia's news and the translations English to Spanish.
> 
> Meanwhile, you can use and enjoy our repository in this way:
> 
> urpmi.addmedia --wget --distrib ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/i586
> 
> The x86_64 repository is not finished yet, but you still can add it in
> this way:
> 
> urpmi.addmedia --wget --distrib
> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/x86_64
> 
> Cheers!

Hello
Thanks to you...


Just one thing to correct : your repos addresses are :
ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/free/i586/
ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/free/x86_64/

nevertheless I could surf through your repos :
Some of the rpms you propose reply to rpm requests already done or that
I was going to write (reading my thoughts ?)

:)

First thing I must say : it's a very good idea to upload these packages
to the BS and join the packagers team instead of providing third party
repos that will soon create compatibility problems (as in the past for
Mandrake and Mandriva with Thac's or MIB or others)

The second thing is : before uploading them you will have to be careful
with the repos policy (core tainted non-free)
In your own repo, there is a problematic package : faac (and libfaac0
libfaac-devel) which is both non-free and tainted ...
After long dicussions on the mailing list a meeting decision was not to
provide it at the moment (nor the packages built with it...)
If a non-free-&-tainted repo is created for Mageia2, in the future, it
will be then allowed ... wait and see !