On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 18:01 +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: > Hi! > > After a bit of discussion on #fedora-devel I was directed here to start > some discussion. > > The issue is that you guys have some neat stuff in Fedora which you > essentially are also upstream for. Now, usually when we (Ubuntu in my > case) package software, we go to a homepage or ftp site or whatever to > grab a tarball, add our packaging to that and upload it to our archive. > > If I want to do the same with, say, system-config-samba, I've just > learned that I should go to koji, grab the SRPM, donwload it, extract > the "upstream" tar.bz2 from the SRPM and convert it to a tar.gz (yes, I > need a gzipped version, but don't worry about that). It's hard to > discover availability of new versions and equally hard to get my hands > on the corresponding tarball. > > The short version is: It would be massively helpful to us (and possibly > others) if you could provide those tarballs in a more (for us) easily > accessible place, e.g. an ftp site or a web site of some sort. > Agreed. In the case of system-config-samba the spec file has this mention: # We are upstream, thus the source is only available from within this #source # package. Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2 I'm cc'ing the maintainer on this to see if we could convince him to move system-config-samba out to hosted.fedoraproject.org to solve the above problem. Nils, Would you be willing to move things off of elvis and onto hosted.fedoraproject.org to help with the use of system-config-samba by other distros? Thanks! -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list