Next steps to get RPM Fusion running

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Thu Sep 25 20:02:15 CEST 2008


On 14.09.2008 20:01, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 14.09.2008 19:34, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> = 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
>> If we cannot get a hold of Matthias, we could just start with a mirrorlist like 
>> livna is using right?
> Yeah, we could, but I'd much prefer to use the mini-mirrormanager -- 
> then we don't have to touch the config files again, which is important 
> for those people that don't do .rpmnew-files cleanups on their systems
> 
>>> - 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)
>> Same here if we cannot get hold of Matthias we should just move forward with kmods
> I have thought of it, but I'd prefer not to do that as kernel-module 
> packaging is such a delicate task...

Just FYI, Xavier afaik tried to contact thias multiple times via phone 
without success. Is anybody here on the list that is in touch with him? 
If yes please tell him that a reply from him to this mail

http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-September/001078.html

would be really really helpful to get things moving forward again. 
Xavier knows the details for the DNS adjustments.

CU
knurd


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