On Sat, 2014-01-25 at 12:04 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: > After hacking a simple tool which provides a GUI for a repository file > it's possible to create repository packages complete with desktop and > appdata file. I have some 5-10 such repository packages under way, my > plan is to push them into rpmfusion. http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors#Read_the_packaging_guidelines "RPM Fusion follows the Fedora packaging guidelines, make sure you've read and understood these: Naming Guidelines Guidelines" "Guidelines" is a link to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines : "Configuration for package managers in Fedora MUST ONLY reference the official Fedora repositories in their default enabled and disabled state (see the yum repo configuration in the fedora-release package for the canonical list). Unofficial and third-party repositories that contain only packages that it is legal for us to direct people to in Fedora (see the Forbidden items and Licensing:Main pages for an explanation of what is legal) may be shipped in %{_docdir}. The idea is that the system administrator would need to explicitly copy the configuration file from doc into the proper location on the filesystem if they want to enable the repository." Presumably one is to s/Fedora/RPMFusion and Fedora/g/ when reading that as applying to Fusion, but still, Fusion's policies would appear to forbid you to ship packages that contain 'active' external repository configuration. > If there will be a way for users to aggregate appdata from different > sources such as rpmfusion (don't fully really understand this process > right now) users will be able to search and find also non-free items > as long there is a packaged repository for them. It should work out of > the box right now using old-school tools based on package metadata. > Not ideal, but perhaps something. So I found this point interesting in thinking about these issues this morning. There was a post of Hughesie's (I think) in another thread which was also illuminating: it suggested the design of Software is to be a generic 'software' installer - to provide as much 'software' from as many sources as possible, under the 'it's all just software' theory, I guess. I think the assumption that this is obviously the right design is interesting, because I strongly disagree - not just for legal or policy reasons, but because that's most definitely *not* what I want. I don't want a 'greedy' software installer that just finds every piece of crap on the internet and offers it to me. I appreciate the curation that repositories provide, I tend my repository configuration carefully, and I really do only want to be offered software from my configured repositories as a matter of course, and yes, I do not expect that the packages from my configured repos will go and set up other repos, and I would be quite angry if they did. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
