fedora non-released buildsys

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 2 15:19:43 UTC 2012




On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Michael Cronenworth wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>  A few of us have been working on the basis for a buildsystem for fedora
>> for our non-released pkgs. This is ultimately for building ad-hoc stacks
>> of packages from both trusted and untrusted repos.
>>
>> Use cases:
>>  - personal repos (coprs)
>>  - ad-hoc language-module repos (ruby, python, cpan, etc) for people who
>> need infinite versions of every module compiled against all of the other
>> possible permutations
>>  - fail to be build from source rebuild runs.
>>  - other ideas here.
>>
>> Some discussion of it is here:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skvidal/BuildSystem
>
> How are you going to keep out non-free packages?
> eg: NVIDIA driver or Flash

by checking the license field of the spec file and assuming that the users 
are not lying.


if they do lie then I think the course of action is obvious.

-sv



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