Re: virtio-win drivers

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On 01/14/2010 02:05 PM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:46:54PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> On Thursday 14 January 2010 10:30:45 am Justin M. Forbes wrote:
>> This is not a board issue.  If we can not build it in fedora then we can not 
>> ship it period.  you are free to host it on your fedorapeople space and 
>> document how to get it.  Best thing to do would be for the upstream project to 
>> host the iso and make it available for download.  
>>
>> virtio-win drivers are not something that fedora can realistically support.  
>> we cannot build them we cannot issue fixes.  we have no way to realistically do 
>> anything with them. 
> 
> Fedora the distribution can't build these.  I agree.
> 
> Fedora the Project can, as members have shown.  In this case the open
> source software requires non-Fedora software to build.
> 
> We do distribute content that isn't built in koji.  It's all at
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/.  We can't recreate the ogg
> videos hosted there either. How is this different?

I would argue that the virtio-win drivers are not content, but code.

~spot
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