[Mageia-sysadm] Packages SVN

[Olivier Blin]

Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:

> Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 08:30 +0100, Olivier Blin a écrit :
>> Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> About losing history, maybe it's something we will have to go through,
>> >> not to risk importing copyrighted/trademarked material.
>> >
>> > What would be trademarked in the svn log ?
>> 
>> Not in the log message, but in the commit contents.
>
> If we treat this content like we treat the tarballs, then we could
> workaround the problem, no ?

How so?

>> > And more ever, what would be trademarked that we could not remove once
>> > we found out ?
>> 
>> Names, images, themes, colors.
>> Since there is still no svn obliterate command, this is quite hard to
>> remove once imported.
>
> So this would also mean we will import only after having cleaned the
> various packages ?
>
> This mean then that a review must be started ASAP ( in my humble
> opinion ).

Yes, I started looking at that back in August, and mentionned this in
the project chan.

On a minimal install without suggests, I found this files with
the "mandriva" name: http://pastebin.com/r5fEpUpQ

These are the most obvious to start with.

But we should check with the board if we want to go that far.

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Olivier Blin - blino