On 06/18/2012 09:36 AM, George Olson wrote:
I was reading with interest the thread on the KDE 4.8.4 repo, and one of the things that stuck to me most was that I don't fully understand how the repository system works.
So please, begging your pardons, can someone point me in the right direction on where to read about the repository system, so that I can follow this more intelligently?
Here is what I think I understand, and please correct me if I am wrong. There are 2 upstream KDE repos - KDE Factory (KDF) and KDE Release (KDR). There was an update put on both KDR and KDF so that we could upgrade to KDE 4.8.4. However, there was something wrong, which caused a lot of crashes, mostly with kmail, akonadi, and nepomuk.
As to understanding what exactly went wrong, here is where it gets fuzzy. I read people writing things like:
"Someone needs to update kdelibs4 in KDE:Release:48. The fix is already in KDE:Distro:Factory, but not pushed to KR48. And then we have to wait."
- so my question is, when a statement like this is posted, who actually updates kdelibs4? Is it only people on the KDE development team, or are there people out here in the community that contribute to that and put it together and then rebuild it?
Here is another quote:
"Still the question remains why somebody would set the repo to publish but not check whether it actually builds for four days and counting."
- My question on this is, who sets up the repo? I do not mean this to point fingers, but rather just so that I understand who in general sets up the repositories. Can anyone do it? Or do only KDE development people do it? - And then also, about building (which I assume mean all the packages and libraries compile and function together), how is a repository checked to see whether it builds? Again, is this something that we as a community are supposed to do? or are there development people that take it upon themselves to do it?
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