Next steps to get RPM Fusion running

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 14 September 2008 at 17:18, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> just thought I write down a rough list of things that I plan to do for 
> RPM Fusion over the next couple of weeks. I'm sending it here in the 
> hope that some people help me with some of those task; then we hopefully 
> get RPM Fusion running quite soon.
> 
> = most important things =
> 
> - get the mini-mirrormanager from 
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40#c9
> installed and running somewhere. Xavier afaik is ready with that for a 
> few days now; but he needs thias to get the machine in DNS, as only he 
> has control over DNS and thus is the only one that can add 
> mirror.rpmfusion.org; once that is done get the rpmfusion-release 
> package into the repos
> 
> - we need a decision for kernel-module packaging. Decision here mainly 
> means: Get a statement (preferred a ACK) from thias regarding kmods 
> (which includes akmods), which afaics most of the other crucial 
> packagers accepted (Hans, Dominik and a few others)

Well, my vote shouldn't count too much as I don't actually maintain
any kmods (yet).

> - once those two things are finished and the release-package is known to 
> be working I'll add rpmfusion-{non,}free-release to the livna *devel* 
> repos; then I'll build a new livna-release package that has a hard dep 
> on those two.

Make rpmfusion-release obsolete livna-release instead.

>   Livna-devel users thus will get rpmfusion enabled *automatically*. 
> Some people will not like it, but it's a reasonable things to do IMHO. 
> Especially as I plan to stop updating the livna devel repo from that 
> point (one things less to take care of for me and the package maintainers).
>
>  If that works out fine I plan to do the same for Fedora {8,9}-testing 
> a few days later.

+1.

Regards,
R.

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