Populating CVS (was Re: Dribble Frozen)

[Xavier Lamien]

2008/5/5 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl>:

> KH KH wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> Agree, rules for non-free:
> "non-free: the package must 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.
> >
>
> But how would those then get build? I would prefer normal src.rpm's, which
> then do a wget of the sources during the build, so the .src.rpm will most
> likely only contain an .spec file, .nosrc.rpm's where the pieces have to be
> pieced together manually before building, are no good, as we want all
> packages to be automatically buildable from cvs + lookaside by plague.


+1


>
>
>  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
> >
>
> Yes anything which can go to Fedora should be in Fedora, see my simcoupe
> work of late for example.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>



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