On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:06:58PM +0100, B.Weber@warwick.ac.uk wrote:
Not at all, of course they can do, and some might wish to. But all they would need to do is host a tiny file containing a list of packages to install their product and repositories they are available from.
The developers of most software won't do this. Most likely they don't even know what repositries they need to add for each
Who maintains the repository is irrelevant. The would not even have to do this, anyone could do it.
They would have to know what the repository is. An example. makeSUSEdvd needs the latest version of autoyast2-utils, or at least create_package_descr So now I have to find out what repositories I must point people to for each version of SUSE. Naturaly this should then also be done for other distributions. Technicaly doable. In reality it won't work. If you see how many deveopers only give you a sourcefile or just sourcefile and a *.deb, I doubt very much that they suddenly will start adding what you want. The void is filled by repositories. The SUSE Build Server should be able to fill that void. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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