Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:40:15 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Thursday 2010-06-24 20:31, Jim Henderson wrote:
> > > > > Maybe the solution is to modify OBS to allow someone to submit
> > > > > packages to a "community" repository
> > > >
> > > > openSUSE:Contrib is there already. Then again, if you have enough
> > > > guts you could just as well send it to openSUSE:Factory outright.
> > >
> > > yes, with Factory that open as it is now, Factory is the right way.
> >
> > I had thought Factory was for "future development" - ie, the basis for
> > the builds that go into the "next release".  Am I misunderstanding that?
>
> Is there a problem with that?

Not a problem so much, but rather if someone's running on the "current" 
release, having to go to the "experimental" area for a piece of software 
that isn't in the standard repo seems like overkill.

The 'contrib' repo would seem to me to be a better fit.  If I'm looking 
to run brltty (for example - intentionally picked a package I didn't find 
in OBS at all) on openSUSE 11.2 and someone's contributed it, I wouldn't 
want to have to sub to a repo that gets me into the development repo for 
11.3 - I'd want to stay on 11.2.

That's how I'm seeing that.  Does that make sense?

Jim

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