What do we think of this?

Matt Domsch matt at domsch.com
Tue Mar 27 19:39:45 UTC 2007


On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:31:35PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 14:14 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 13:47:19 Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> > > Surely it's not in the interests of the 3rd party repos to contribute to
> > > Fedora breakage.  Right?
> > >
> > > Is it *theroetically* possible to have a set of standards that unofficial
> > > repos could follow to be less likely to break us?  And if so, what
> > > prevents those standards from being created, and met?
> > >
> > > Maybe these are stupid questions -- but I like putting stupid questions on
> > > the record.
> > 
> > Standards are great, and we can ask that of them, but since we don't allow our 
> > name to be on it, and we aren't allowed to link to it in any way so long as 
> > they hold non-legal software, we don't have much recourse for enforcement.
> > 
> > Add to that the implicit problem of two(or more) disconnected repositories.  
> > When we push updates in Fedora, we can and do break deps in the 3rd party 
> > repos.  They have to rebuild against what we're publishing as updates before 
> > their deps are fixed.  For OUR repos, we can prepare all these builds before 
> > pushing live so that the repos stay consistant.  External parties do not have 
> > this luxury.  And I'm not about to run repoclosure on N+ 3rd party repos 
> > before pushing out an update.
> 
> Here's where things could get interesting -- Can we make it easy for
> third party repositories to stay informed of what dep-breaking packages
> have been built and are waiting to be pushed to the repository?  Can we
> make it easy for them to grab those packages and do a rebuild that waits
> in the wings for our push to make the new package live?

AFAIK, the needsign repo is available for mirroring from the builders,
and if it isn't available by public rsync, probably could be.

-Matt




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