Putting the mugshot client in fedora-extras

[Owen Taylor]

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 11:34 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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/

Hmm ... ideally the diversion would occur after the signing step, so
that resulting packages would be signed as Fedora Extras packages.
is that practical?
						- Owen