Hello, Am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2011 schrieb Jörg Stephan:
2011/12/13 Christian Boltz
: No, because I think doing it in the distribution itsself (= submit packages to Factory) instead of starting a separate project would be better and avoids some additional work.
So, maybe we have a little misunderstanding on my side. I really dont know who makes the decision on which paket can be found in the distribution.
The person who maintains the package and submits it to Factory ;-) There are some people (Coolo, Sascha, ...) that have to accept the package. They usually accept most packages, rejects only happen if they have a very good reason.
I know for example that there is a really good community repo which gives mod_chroot http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache:/Modules/Apache_openS USE_12.1/ i guess most of this modules could be needed in the distribution, to fit a server (better).
I think it would really be better if the distribution itself could fit this, it would make everything much easier. So what can I (we) do to improve this?
There are two options: a) ask the maintainers if they want to push their package(s) to Factory (it can happen that a maintainer asks you to help in maintaining the package or even hands over maintenance to you completely) b) push the package to Factory yourself (which means _you_ will have to maintain it in Factory)
Submit the packages you need to Factory.
Thats all?
Basically yes ;-) You should of course also maintain the package (update for new openSUSE releases, provide fixed packages for released versions if a security problem comes up etc.) You can find more details on http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Factory - have a look at the "Contribute to Factory" section.
By the way, what system runs the openSUSE infrastruktur?
AFAIK the servers run with SLES.
Besides that, feel free to enhance the existing server-related patterns or create new ones as needed.
Okay, sounds easy, but i think it wont be easy. I take a closer look.
The technical part is quite easy - a pattern is a list of packages that belong together (for example a "LAMP" pattern for a typical webserver with PHP and MySQL). The more interesting[tm] thing is to make a good selection of packages for a pattern and to decide which of them should be installed automatically and which are optional. To stay with our example, should MySQL or MariaDB be installed? Extreme example: create a "best desktop" pattern *eg* Regards, Christian Boltz -- PS: Wer Rechtschreibfehler findet, darf sie behalten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org