Making "upstream" tarballs available
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Sep 4 12:38:26 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 14:21 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
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> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >
> >> We can add the recommendation but we can't eliminate the "SRPM is
> >> canonical" language as long as people still want the SRPM to be the
> >> canonical location. To remove the exception, you'll have to talk to the
> >> devs involved to see whether they're against moving into hosted.fp.o.
> >>
> >> If everyone wants to we'd be happy to get rid of the exception :-)
> >
> > The next thing would be is to list out the packages which has the
> > packages as the canonical source, contact the developers and ask them if
> > they are willing to move to hosted.
>
> Seth is working on this. I haven't looked at it because not all
> packages are reviewed yet.... and therefore not all packages are going
> to have proper Source: lines or comments conforming to the Guidelines.
Here's the results - I just did searches against devel and F-7 pkgs.
http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/source-without-url.txt
the script I used is here:
http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/look-for-no-url-source.sh
It should help us track down the ones we can control and help it.
some that are listed that spring to mind:
system-config-bind
system-config-boot
system-config-cluster
system-config-date
system-config-display
system-config-firewall
system-config-keyboard
system-config-kickstart
system-config-language
system-config-lvm
system-config-netboot
system-config-network
system-config-nfs
system-config-printer
system-config-rootpassword
system-config-samba
system-config-securitylevel
system-config-services
system-config-soundcard
system-config-users
system-switch-java
system-switch-mail
-sv
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