Warren, I understand that we collectively have the skills needed to build (or rebuild) the RPMs. However I think we do need to make available documentation on how to access the archives once they are up. I would be happy to write something up. The users would probably appreciate it. -Chris On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 16:48, Warren Togami wrote: > On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 10:20, Lucas Albers wrote: > > How close to a working implementation of fedora legacy are we? > > > > Have you tested the build environment by rebuilding all the srpms for our > > supported architectures? > > Then we can dump those packages into our yum/apt repository. Then the > > mirrors can do a dry run on synchronization and various people can test > > everything to see if yum/apt repository appear to be working correctly. > > > > Err... why rebuild the entire operating system? > > At the moment I am confident that we collectively fully understand all > the quirks on the target operating systems. Currently we are waiting > for Pogo Linux and Jesse Keatings to put together the dedicated Fedora > Legacy server. When that happens we (the fedora.us team) can easily > help him setup and understand every aspect of how this works. > > If that is not operational in time we have a viable backup plan. For > the past 10 months fedora.us has basically been doing exactly this: > package submission, QA analysis, improvement, building, testing, > signing, publishing in apt/yum repositories. fedora.us infrastructure > for doing this for Legacy is ready TODAY. Unless the Legacy members > want to do the necessary discussion to design a new process now, I > really believe the existing fedora.us process with minor modifications > will do the job. > > > > > We are 24 days from our launch date, based on eol, and I want to be > > confident I can use this on my systems. > > > > Do we have: > > bugzilla database? > > Perhaps just need to tweak our settings and update the documentation. > > > erratta notifications? > > Only need to add a mailing list to mailman. > > > Figured out the argument about rpm versions? > > RH8 and RH9 I think most of us agree to upgrade. 7.X is less certain > and contingent on if we want to be able to use the latest yum-2.x, thus > perhaps we should have a vote? > > > Setup apt or yum repository? > > > > No problem. We've been doing this for ages. Don't worry. > > Warren > > > -- > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list >
