On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:40:15 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Thursday 2010-06-24 20:31, Jim Henderson wrote:
Maybe the solution is to modify OBS to allow someone to submit packages to a "community" repository
openSUSE:Contrib is there already. Then again, if you have enough guts you could just as well send it to openSUSE:Factory outright.
yes, with Factory that open as it is now, Factory is the right way.
I had thought Factory was for "future development" - ie, the basis for the builds that go into the "next release". Am I misunderstanding that?
Is there a problem with that?
Not a problem so much, but rather if someone's running on the "current" release, having to go to the "experimental" area for a piece of software that isn't in the standard repo seems like overkill.
The 'contrib' repo would seem to me to be a better fit. If I'm looking to run brltty (for example - intentionally picked a package I didn't find in OBS at all) on openSUSE 11.2 and someone's contributed it, I wouldn't want to have to sub to a repo that gets me into the development repo for 11.3 - I'd want to stay on 11.2.
That's how I'm seeing that. Does that make sense?
Jim
Contrib is also versioned. We currently have it for 11.2 and factory I believe: http://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories#Contrib Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org