Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (200 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Thursday, 26. May 2011, 13:52:54 schrieb Radoslav Dibarbora:
> On 26.May.2011 13:35, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> > Am Thursday, 26. May 2011, 12:45:45 schrieb peer:
> > > On 05/26/2011 12:36 PM, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 26 May 2011 12:25:23 peer wrote:
> > > > > On 05/26/2011 11:18 AM, Claudio Freire wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Adrian Schröter<adrian@xxxxxxx>    
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > Since these are anyway a moving target, what about if you Debian/Ubuntu
> > > > > > > builder people found a project, let's say Debian:Support where you
> > > > > > > maintain such packages and build for all (needed) Debian and Ubuntu
> > > > > > > distros.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > So you can have a common pool for such packages and you do not rely on
> > > > > > > me personally.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I would create such a project and hand over to you, if let's say at
> > > > > > > least three persons are willing to work on that.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > does this sound like a plan ?
> > > > > > Yep, that sounds perfect
> > > > > Sounds like a unpractical and cumbersome solution to me. Maybe I am
> > > > > missing something, but why not enable 'universe' (as an option) as 
> > > > > default?
> > > > Just as Adrian said, currently we're not allowed to host _all_ content 
> > > > that is
> > > > in Ubuntu's universe/multiverse repositories, mainly due to license and 
> > > > patent
> > > > issues. That's essentially the same reason why we're not hosting 
> > > > rpmfusion for
> > > > Fedora.
> > > >
> > > > Until the OBS is hostet in a country where this doesn't matter we're 
> > > > bound to
> > > > german law.
> > > I understand that multiverse is a problem. But why universe, that is all
> > > free software.
> > The last time I checked it contained definitive some packages part of our 
> > black list
> > (containg ffmpeg inside of the application and so on).
> >
> > ALso, it was a moving target. I will not import such a repo binary wise, 
> > because I would
> > need permanently updating it.
> Adrian,
>
> What about allowing the worker to download build requirements from 
> external sources?

builds would not be reproducable. The value of OBS would not be given.

> Will it be also illegal if you will not provide problematic packages 
> just allow to build using them?

since you would be also able to download them via api.o.o, yes.

> This will also solve the problem with other distributions needs. I was 
> asking to add EPEL repositories few times but it ended in nowhere 
> probably for same reasons:
> - legal problems
> - need to maintain frequently changed binary repositories
>
> Regards
> Rado

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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