virtio-win drivers

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:05:16PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:46:54PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 January 2010 10:30:45 am Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> > This is not a board issue.  If we can not build it in fedora then we can not 
> > ship it period.  you are free to host it on your fedorapeople space and 
> > document how to get it.  Best thing to do would be for the upstream project to 
> > host the iso and make it available for download.  
> > 
> > virtio-win drivers are not something that fedora can realistically support.  
> > we cannot build them we cannot issue fixes.  we have no way to realistically do 
> > anything with them. 
> 
> Fedora the distribution can't build these.  I agree.
> 
> Fedora the Project can, as members have shown.  In this case the open
> source software requires non-Fedora software to build.
> 
> We do distribute content that isn't built in koji.  It's all at
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/.  We can't recreate the ogg
> videos hosted there either. How is this different?

I believe it's not.  The only fundamental disconnect is the inability
for us to do the 100% self-built, self-hosted part with the virtio-win
code.

Your point about alt.fp.o is a good one!

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