El Jueves, 11 de Agosto de 2005 10:38, Adrian Schroeter escribió:
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 19:15, Víctor Fernández Martínez wrote:
Suse has for so long offered their packages through a FTP, and now it even offers more packages in the repository than in the CDs/DVD. But the problem is the people couldn't contribute RPM packages as in other distros. Let's say, for example, Mandriva. As long as I have seen, it has a contrib repository where you can become a contributor and commit RPM packages.
Yes, you are right, this is not sufficient. We do work on a solution for this, which will be the build server in early next year.
And that's great.
Now that openSUSE has come, I think it would be cool to create a contrib repository where the people could join and maintain their packages. There would still be an officially supported repository like now, but whoever wanted could ask the repository organizers for permission to take a particular package if nobody is responsible for it or if it doesn't exist, and maintain it. That way the contrib repository could contain packages not included in the main repository, so the people would have a lot more packages available for Suse. That would contribute to create a packagers community and having much more packages might improve the market share of Suse.
For now it is only possible to create an own YaST repository:
Well, I already have a YaST repository. ;) It's not very serious and I haven't signed the packages with GPG yet but now I know how so I'll do it soon. If you're curious: http://www.polinux.upv.es/~vfernandez/suse/ But I would like to contribute my RPMs in a more serious way. I'll have to wait.
(YUM repos should also work now). I want to create a Wiki page today listing the existing additional repositories in this world. That can get extended than by everyone.
Yes, this can't be the default solution for the long run. And it won't be :)
Good idea anyway. -- Víctor Fernández Martínez Gabinete de prensa de PoLinux [www.polinux.upv.es]. Usuario de Linux registrado #312284 en http://counter.li.org.