Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

Pascal Bleser napsal(a):
> Sorry for breaking the thread, but it's on purpose: let's try to focus a
> bit on _one_ topic, the contrib repository (and please don't reply on
> minor points, we're discussing the big picture here.. one thing at a
> time :)).

Nice summary, indeed!

> 1) Duplication and home:* is killing the cat^WOBS
...
> -- others are good quality and exist under "home:" because it's either
> --- too tedious to get maintainer rights in one of the "real" OBS
> project (you might think it isn't, but people who contribute many
> packages in their free time can't just wait for a few hours to get
> access), or

If this is true, then we have a problem which is not going to go away
with the contrib repository. I expect, and the discussion so far is
supporting it, that the process of adding new packages to the Contrib
repository will be a bit _more_ complicated / lengthy than it is with
your average Build Service project - that's the price for stability.


> --- we're lacking several "real" repositories (e.g. nowhere to put
> Jabber clients, command-line utilities, firewall tools, hardware related
> packages, ...)

This is also a problem on it's own IMO, we need these projects, Contrib
or not: for backports of the latest and greatest (even if these are only
source links to Factory or Factory:Contrib) or stuff that was rejected
from Contrib for whatever reason.


> We _really_ have to move good packages from home:* repos into the "real"
> ones and have duplicates removed.

Definitely!

> 4) Factory-staging is pointless
...
> Always keep in mind that packages in Factory are _very_ different from
> packages in any other repository, because it means that
...
> - every package there has to be maintained for many years (for the
> lifetime of the corresponding SLE, actually)
> - Novell provides support to SLE customers (see level1->level3) for
> those packages, 24/7

These two points are actually not true, not every package that is in
Factory ends up in the next SLE. Therefore, no need to consider SLE in
this discussion :).

Michal
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