Populating CVS (was Re: Dribble Frozen)

[Xavier Lamien]

2008/5/5 KH KH <kwizart at gmail.com>:

> 2008/5/5 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl>:
> > Xavier Lamien wrote:
> >
> > > 2008/5/4 Ian Chapman <packages at amiga-hardware.com>:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > Just a quick note to those who it concerns that Dribble is now
> frozen
> > and
> > > > no new updates or packages will be permitted there. Most
> contributors
> > are
> > > > migrating their packages to RPM Fusion, including most of mine.
> Thanks
> > very
> > > > much and I wish RPM Fusion the best of luck.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot Ian,
> > >
> > > I think dribble will be the first to merge in next couple of days, as
> we
> > > have a clean frozen version of packages set.
> > >
> > > Hans give a signal for cvssync.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >  Xavier,
> >
> >  We (Dribble) don't have a CVS, given the low package count and churn
> we've
> > always been passing Ian srpms to build.
> >
> >  So in order to get dribble's packages into rpmfusion cvs / look a side,
> > someone would need to go to:
> >  http://dribble.org.uk/listrpms4.html
> >
> >  Create cvs modules for all srpms listed there and then use cvs-import
> on
> > the srpms linked from there to populate the cvs modules.
> >
> >  Owners for the modules can be found here:
> >  http://rpmfusion.org/InitialPackageMerge
> >
> >  But I guess all owners first need to have a FAS account, so maybe now
> would
> > be a good moment to send a mail to the list asking everyone to create a
> FAS
> > account?
> >
> >  Hmm, I just realized that creating cvs modules isn't that easy because
> we
> > first need to decide on a package for package base wether it goes to
> > non-free or free.
> >
> >  So what are the rules for free? I would like to suggest the following:
> >
> >  "free: anything of which all components are under a license which is
> listed
> > as
> >   good on: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
> >
> >   Notice that free fully follows this webpage except that chapter 6
> > "Software
> >   Types" is ignored.
> >
> >   Notice that anything depending upon anything in non-free must be in
> > non-free
> >   itself."
> >
> >  Can everyone live with this? If we can agree this is the rule for the
> > non-free free split, then I can make a list of which packages in dribble
> > should go where.
>
> Hi !
> I agree from this. I just want to notice that "-nonfree" expects at
> least the package to be redistributable.
> I don't expect dribble have such packages. But amr{nb,wb} codecs are
> ( altought opensource - we even cannot retristribute the sources).
> For such cases i guess it would be desirable to have nosrc.rpm in the
> SRPMS non-free section.
> http://kwizart.free.fr/fedora/nosrc/amrnb-7.0.0.0-1.nosrc.rpm
> http://kwizart.free.fr/fedora/nosrc/amrwb-7.0.0.2-1.nosrc.rpm
> I will request a review if allowed.
>
> Also all packages that can go to Fedora shouldn't be allowed in RPM
> Fusion.
> ( I have submitted some perl package freshrpms use for dvdrip at least)
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444733
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444744
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444745
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444755
> I don't know if this can concern some p2p programs that are
> problematic in some country...



It could, so you should take this in account first.




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