On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:40:01PM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Together with Richard, I have organized such a "place for unsupported SUSE stuff" a long time ago (was at 7.3 times I guess) at ftp.gwdg.de - the APT repositories for SUSE.
I Use SUSE for some years now and I never knew that.
If you build some RPMs for SUSE distributions regularly at home, I can add a directory /pub/linux/suser-<your-identity> at ftp.gwdg.de and rsync the contents nightly from your home.
I first will look into making RPM's according the rules, becauise now I just run checkinstall and be done with it. Works great for me, personally. :-)
Every "suser" ("suse user", Richard's creation) is encouraged to run createreo over his personal RPM directory at home.
You could make it a requirement. I mean I running `createrepo /usr/src/packages/RPMS/` is not THAT difficult.
This gives the community the chance to directly add the suser-XXX repository as a YaST source.
The disadvatage is that you have to add many repositories. Also many repos will have double RPM's in them with the chance of people doing work twice.
Once the OpenSUSE build hosts are installed, all "susers" will get invited to move the RPM build process to the SUSE provided build hosts, and then all the "suser" repositories can move "one level higher", to be distributed centrally to all the SUSE mirrors.
Great. So what time will this be done? ;-)
But again: you don't have to wait. First step is already here (at ftp.gwdg.de). Drop me a line to participate.
Thanks. I will keep it in the back of my mind. At this moment my knowledge of building RPM's is limited to checkinstall. As I said, I will first learn some RPM building basics.Next wait what things I miss in 10.0 and then look if I could be of any use. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html