Fedora.next in 2014 -- Big Picture and Themes

[Alec Leamas]

>On Sat, 2014-01-25 at 12:04 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote:


>>  After hacking a simple tool which provides a GUI for a repository file
>>  it's possible to create repository packages complete with  desktop and
>>  appdata file. I have some 5-10 such repository packages under way, my
>>  plan is to push them into rpmfusion.

> http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors#Read_the_packaging_guidelines

> "RPM Fusion follows the Fedora packaging guidelines, make sure you've
> read and understood these:

>    Naming Guidelines
>
>

> "Guidelines" is a link to
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines :

> "Configuration for package managers in Fedora MUST ONLY reference the
> official Fedora repositories in their default enabled and disabled state
> (see the yum repo configuration in the fedora-release package for the
> canonical list). Unofficial and third-party repositories that contain
> only packages that it is legal for us to direct people to in Fedora (see
> the Forbidden items and Licensing:Main pages for an explanation of what
> is legal) may be shipped in %{_docdir}. The idea is that the system
> administrator would need to explicitly copy the configuration file from
> doc into the proper location on the filesystem if they want to enable
> the repository."

> Presumably one is to s/Fedora/RPMFusion and Fedora/g/ when reading that
> as applying to Fusion, but still, Fusion's policies would appear to
> forbid you to ship packages that contain 'active' external repository
> configuration.

>>  If there will be a way for users to aggregate appdata from different
>>  sources such as rpmfusion  (don't fully really understand this process
>>  right now) users will be able to search and find also non-free items
>>  as long there is a packaged repository for them. It should work out of
>>  the box right now using old-school tools based on package metadata.

>> Not ideal, but perhaps something.

> So I found this point interesting in thinking about these issues this
> morning. There was a post of Hughesie's (I think) in another thread
> which was also illuminating: it suggested the design of Software is to
> be a generic 'software' installer - to provide as much 'software' from
> as many sources as possible, under the 'it's all just software' theory,
>  guess.

> I think the assumption that this is obviously the right design is
> interesting, because I strongly disagree - not just for legal or policy
> reasons, but because that's most definitely *not* what I want. I
> cut]

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Sorry for badly formatted reply - lost the original in my mailbox and
only have this web UI right now :(.

Anyway,  I have submitted [1], a rpmfusion review request for
dropbox-repo. A real case should hopefully provide a sound base for
remaining things to discuss.

--alec

[1] https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3152

On 1/27/14, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 01/27/2014 05:36 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
>> So without, unfortunately, the time to read through reams of stuff
>> on this and with my user hat on (don't think I've seen any
>> discussion of this on the users list), if it means how fedora
>> actually works is better thought out then that's a good thing, but
>> does this mean there will be things unavailable on some 'products'
>> that are not on others? At the minute you install a spin and can
>> add whatever other packages. That's great if you want to do
>> something like set up a quick web server for testing or stream some
>> music without creating VMs everywhere. It sounds a bit like this
>> plan may end up with finding you can't do X on a Fedora system
>> because you installed the wrong flavour.
>>
>
> No.
>
> The Products will be defining an environment and a standard install
> set. They may have separate initial *installation* repositories if
> they need to provide different options to Anaconda, but beyond that
> the intent is for all of the Products to continue to draw from the
> same store of packages together.
>
> If (for example) we got ourselves into a situation where you couldn't
> install Fedora Server and then also install the GNOME desktop
> environment on that Server, this would be considered a major bug and
> one that we would need to reconcile immediately.
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