F21 Self Contained Change: Playground repository

Marcela Mašláňová mmaslano at redhat.com
Thu Apr 17 13:06:48 UTC 2014


On 04/17/2014 03:03 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 04/08/2014 06:17 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>> The Playground repository gives contributors a place to host packages
>> that are
>> not up to the standards of the main Fedora repository but may still be
>> useful
>> to other users. For now the Playground repository contains both
>> packages that
>> are destined for eventual inclusion into the main Fedora repository and
>> packages that are never going to make it there. Users of the
>> repository should
>> be willing to endure a certain amount of instability when using
>> packages from
>> there.
>
> Are there any restrictions on obsoletes/provides between the base Fedora
> repositories and these playground repositories, (undeclared) file
> conflicts, paths that can be touched, or restrictions on RPM scripts?
>
In fact, it's still an open question [1]. I guess only experienced users 
will allow Playground, so no worries. But I can be persuaded both ways 
with good arguments.

[1] 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Env_and_Stacks/Playground_repository_%28draft%29#Open_Questions

Marcela


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