Putting the mugshot client in fedora-extras

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:04:44 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:

> > They could be excluded at a lower level, so they never make it into the FE
> > repository, but could be mirrored from the needsign repository by you.
> > That way you could control better which versions to keep. E.g. if you made
> > two consecutive releases to fix bugs, that would throw out older releases
> > from the FE repository.
> 
> Is there an overview somewhere of how the process of getting from the
> build system to the FE repository works? What you say about excluding
> the packages from the FE repository entirely sounds right to me, but
> I'm not really sure what I'd be asking for to enable that :-)

Well, I would add some lines of code at the right place where currently
there is only a "TODO" reminder comment. The push script then can
black-list entire build jobs based on their src.rpm package %{name}. How
long to keep them in the needsign repository is another question, but not
hard to solve.

The "needsign" queue directories are here:

  http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/plague-results/

Every package "name" has its own small tree of sub-directories for every
build-job's results.

In the release process, packages from there are copied, signed,
installed in the right locations and synced to the public master
repository at http://fedoraproject.org/extras/