Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 27 November 2010 08:27, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote: >> >> The idea of this layout with some of the separate sections (codecs, >> firmware, games, non-free, debug_*) gives a mirror maintainer in a country >> (or company) the option to exclu

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/11/27 Andrey Borzenkov : > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote: >> >> The idea of this layout with some of the separate sections (codecs, >> firmware, games, non-free, debug_*) gives a mirror maintainer in a country >> (or company) the option to exclude the parts they lega

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > The idea of this layout with some of the separate sections (codecs, > firmware, games, non-free, debug_*) gives a mirror maintainer in a country > (or company) the option to exclude the parts they legally (or by company > policy) can not

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 27 november 2010 00:51:59 schreef Romain d'Alverny: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 00:44, Maarten Vanraes > > wrote: > > Op zaterdag 27 november 2010 00:25:17 schreef Thomas Backlund: > > [...] > > > >> > A) i see no reason for codecs and firmware to be separate. However, i > >> > do unde

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 27 november 2010 00:51:59 schreef Romain d'Alverny: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 00:44, Maarten Vanraes > > wrote: > > Op zaterdag 27 november 2010 00:25:17 schreef Thomas Backlund: > > [...] > > > >> > A) i see no reason for codecs and firmware to be separate. However, i > >> > do unde

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 00:44, Maarten Vanraes wrote: > Op zaterdag 27 november 2010 00:25:17 schreef Thomas Backlund: > [...] >> > A) i see no reason for codecs and firmware to be separate. However, i do >> > understand that some people would not want to install firmware, but i >> > think we shou

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 27 november 2010 00:25:17 schreef Thomas Backlund: [...] > > A) i see no reason for codecs and firmware to be separate. However, i do > > understand that some people would not want to install firmware, but i > > think we should do this in another way, (like installing a meta package > >

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Thomas Backlund
Maarten Vanraes skrev 27.11.2010 01:02: Op vrijdag 26 november 2010 22:43:31 schreef Renaud MICHEL: On vendredi 26 novembre 2010 at 21:29, Thomas Backlund wrote : Then we come to the "problematic" part: -- x86_64 media codecs (disabled by default) co

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Renaud MICHEL
On samedi 27 novembre 2010 at 00:02, Maarten Vanraes wrote : > C) if they are separate, they cannot be disabled by default, some stuff > is needed for stuff to work. I guess you are talking about firmware here. Maybe the installer could detect that a firmware is needed for some hardware, then it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 26 november 2010 22:43:31 schreef Renaud MICHEL: > On vendredi 26 novembre 2010 at 21:29, Thomas Backlund wrote : > > Then we come to the "problematic" part: > > -- > > x86_64 > > > > media > > > > codecs (disabled by default) > > core (o

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Thomas Backlund
Renaud MICHEL skrev 26.11.2010 23:43: On vendredi 26 novembre 2010 at 21:29, Thomas Backlund wrote : Then we come to the "problematic" part: -- x86_64 media codecs (disabled by default) core (old main+contrib) backports (disabled by

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Renaud MICHEL
On vendredi 26 novembre 2010 at 21:29, Thomas Backlund wrote : > Then we come to the "problematic" part: > -- > x86_64 > media > codecs (disabled by default) > core (old main+contrib) >backports (disabled by default) >b

[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-11-26 Thread Thomas Backlund
Hi, As we are getting closer to actually have something to mirror it's time to get this decided. And the deadline for theese discussions is December 5th, 2010 in order to get a decision on the board meeting on December 6th, 2010. Now this is a somewhat problematic topic but needs to be decide

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-11-26 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 26 novembre 2010 à 06:49 -0500, Marc Paré a écrit : > Le 2010-11-26 06:23, Ahmad Samir a écrit : > > > > > You mean the "rumours" that Ubuntu will switch to a rolling distro > > model? > > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-Rolling-release-rumours-wrong-1142040.html > > > >

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-11-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-26 06:23, Ahmad Samir a écrit : You mean the "rumours" that Ubuntu will switch to a rolling distro model? http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-Rolling-release-rumours-wrong-1142040.html (thanks to misc posting the link on IRC yesterday). Yes. Thanks for the link and set

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-11-26 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 26 November 2010 12:21, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-11-26 03:14, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : >> >> 2010/11/26 andre999: >>> >>> MIhail Papadopoulos a écrit : Why not going down the right path: A rolling release cycle would be simply great. After all, this isn't a commerci

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-11-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-26 05:35, Oliver Burger a écrit : Marc Paré schrieb am 2010-11-26 Do we have an archive list of the user mailist where we can refer people to continue on that particular thread? Are the mailists archived? https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20101009/001055.html Merci Oliv

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-11-26 Thread Oliver Burger
Marc Paré schrieb am 2010-11-26 > Do we have an archive list of the user mailist where we can refer people > to continue on that particular thread? Are the mailists archived? https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20101009/001055.html -- http://www.mageia.org - Mageia, the magic continues

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-11-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-26 03:14, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 2010/11/26 andre999: MIhail Papadopoulos a écrit : Why not going down the right path: A rolling release cycle would be simply great. After all, this isn't a commercial distribution, so it shouldn't be a total noob Ubuntu-style mishmash. Why ?

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/11/26 andre999 : > MIhail Papadopoulos a écrit : >> >> >> Why not going down the right path: A rolling release cycle would be simply >> great. After all, this isn't a commercial distribution, so it shouldn't be >> a total noob Ubuntu-style mishmash. >> > > Why ? > What do you mean by "rolling"