[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Olivier Blin mageia at blino.org
Tue Oct 30 10:16:22 CET 2012


Malo <pierre-malo.denielou at rhul.ac.uk> writes:

> On 30/10/12 08:20, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>> Le 30/10/2012 01:34, Frank Griffin a écrit :
>>> On 10/29/2012 06:20 PM, Olivier Blin wrote:
>>>> I would prefer B: adding a nonfree-tainted repo (+ its
>>>> updates/testing/backports/debug brothers).
[...]
>>> I don't know what's involved in this, but it is certainly the optimal
>>> solution.
>> Creating a specific workflow (a new buildsystem queue, a new entry in
>> package manager configuration, etc...) for a category of packages with a
>> unique candidate is not precisely something I'd call 'optimal'. Unless
>> in term of complexity.
>>
>> Morevoer, unless someone volonteers to actually implement it in our
>> buildsystem, that's a purely hypothetical solution.

That's pretty easy to add in the BS, IIRC, it's about creating the dirs
in the repo, modifying media.cfg, and youri + iurt config files.

And maybe one-line to patch in Rpmdrake::Gui to recognize that
nonfree-tainted is not free software (but it looks already broken
anyway).

> I'd have to go with Guillaume on that one.
> The inclusion of faac came up a long time ago, and the simple logical
> answer is to created a tainted-non-free repos.
>
> However, the three problems with that solution are:
> - there is only a handful of people at Mageia who can do that, and
> none of them actually did it.

Maybe because Mageia sysadmins are not always dictators and act upon the
input of other teams.
Pascal and I will be able to do it.

> - there is only faac, so why bother? (fuelling the first reason)
> - the reason that philippe mentioned: is having 3 versions of each
> multimedia package really worth it? ...

Yep, it's only worth the clarity it offers in media descriptions...

-- 
Olivier Blin - blino


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