On 24-01-2008 at 15:06, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@opensuse.org> wrote: I dont know where you have been the last 4 years but static content like we have now is outmoded. You have to provide the building blocks, the means and the user (or a group of users) does the rest.
Hmmmm. so you think we should jump on the web2.0 hype with OBS ;) well: actually, for the end user, a sort of 'aggregate' would be enough to offer. Maybe we can do something with just providing an updated 'repodata' directory for that user, having them point to the actual directore (project) where from they got linked? something like: http://download.opensuse.org/users/dimstar/repodata contains all the repodata set for 'my' own project, but I do not have rpms there myself. all the needed xml files (repomd, other, primary and filelists) would be provided per user basis (I think other is not really nescessary, no clue about filelists, if we can skip it / have them empty dummy files) primary.xml would contain the location-hrefs to the original 'aggregated' RPMs (are absolute path allowed here, like http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:/arcade/openSUSE_Factory/x86...) The impact with the repodata only structure should be rather small on the whole system. Maybe we can try to investigate on something like this, instead of denying the whole idea from the beginning? I of course see many problems arising from missing dependencies (user select package a from project A but does not select A-data from project B and the like). Dominique -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org