FESCo decision on 3rd party repositories
Ryan Lerch
rlerch at redhat.com
Thu Jan 2 17:11:33 UTC 2014
On 12/11/2013 04:50 PM, Elad Alfassa wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Josh Boyer
> <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org <mailto:jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Elad Alfassa
> <elad at fedoraproject.org <mailto:elad at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
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> > What is COPR?
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> It's a newly released platform for building personal RPM repositories.
> Somewhat analogous to Ubuntu's PPAs.
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> http://copr.fedoraproject.org/
> https://fedorahosted.org/copr/
> https://fedorahosted.org/copr/wiki/UserDocs#FAQ
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> josh
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> Interesting.
> We need to think and see how (and if) to integrate it with the desktop
> fedora experience. I wouldn't want gnome-software searching in all of
> these automatically.
> Unless we get COPRs with proper metadata (an archive of all the
> appdata files they contain, perhaps) and meaningful description, I
> can't see a way for us to implement a good enough UI to browse and
> enable those from within the desktop environment.
>
Another thing to consider wehn considering the experience when searching
and downloading from COPRs is that they also may contain applications
that are already in fedora, (just newer builds).
I am currently using COPR to produce builds of inkscape, gimp and
corebird from the upstream master branches --
http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/ryanlerch/
cheers,
ryanlerch
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