On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 04:12:32PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Hi,
After a series of broken packages because of _service files I would like to forbid them in openSUSE:Factory.
So far I've seen the use of _service files in factory as an experiment (I happily joined), but I see this experiment as failed.
What I would like to propose is: - ban recompress, download and tarscm as _services (everything else should have been banned before) - instead we verify the Source urls and make packages that have invalid URLs "broken", so you can't SR them to factory.
This means: the Source URL is now an important thing to change and no longer a bit rotting comment and we stop recompressing tars - this was a proposal from Adrian a while ago without much objection.
+1 for not recompressing - in adtion please remove the ugly source is not bzipped - I'd say having the **same** source file is more important, than saving few bytes.
Please comment or I will go forward.
+1 from me BTW: I consider the separate source caching server idea from Ludwig as excellent. In that case we can reuse the similar scheme with _sources file, like Fedora has. Uploading can be done via web as a fallback method for those, who had a limited upload bandwitch. Regards Michal Vyskocil