Re: [Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy

2011-01-17 Thread Michael scherer
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 06:15:52PM +0100, philippe makowski wrote: Hi, I though that I can find more time to work on this week end, but unfortunately it was not the case. The Mandriva doc is really not a good starter (http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Python_packaging_policy) That's just a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

2011-01-17 Thread Michael scherer
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Samuel Verschelde wrote: Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 11:26:54, Angelo Naselli a écrit : In data domenica 16 gennaio 2011 00:07:56, Anssi Hannula ha scritto: Hi all! Should we have a %mdkversion (and %mdkver/%mdvver) that is hardcoded to

Re: [Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name

2011-01-17 Thread Michael scherer
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:49:24AM +0100, Romain d'Alverny wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:07, Olivier Thauvin nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org wrote: I am supposed to be the maintainers of this software, required by base of the system: perl-MDV-Distribconf-4.02-1mdv2010.1.src.rpm

Re: [Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name

2011-01-17 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 17 January 2011 10:44, Michael scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: As Hoyt points out, it would be more relevant to change the tag if/when/once this code base grows independantly from the original one. Well, we can also ( and I think we should ) aim for keeping compatibility, and in fact, try to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

2011-01-17 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 15 janvier 2011 à 11:08 +0100, Remy CLOUARD a écrit : Patches must be named in a very explicit manner to make it very clear to what version it was originally applied. To that end, a patch needs to follow the convention of [package_name]-[version]-[description].patch: *

Re: [Mageia-dev] Will this work for a build system?

2011-01-17 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 27 September 2010 18:17, Robert Xu rob...@gmail.com wrote: Now, I don't know how Mandriva did its build system, but we will ALWAYS need physical access to servers. If something goes so terribly wrong that one has to reinstall the whole freaking OS, that's not going to help Magiea unless we

Re: [Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

2011-01-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Michael scherer at 17/01/11 08:40 did gyre and gimble: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Samuel Verschelde wrote: Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 11:26:54, Angelo Naselli a écrit : In data domenica 16 gennaio 2011 00:07:56, Anssi Hannula ha scritto: Hi all! Should we

Re: [Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

2011-01-17 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 17 January 2011 16:58, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Given the fact that rpm5 is drifting away from the usage of %mkrel for using %distepoch, I truly doubt this will happen. I think the mkrels will stay for a while tho' (for ease of backporting) so I think we'll have some

Re: [Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

2011-01-17 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 17 januari 2011 18:23:55 schreef Thierry Vignaud: On 17 January 2011 16:58, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Given the fact that rpm5 is drifting away from the usage of %mkrel for using %distepoch, I truly doubt this will happen. I think the mkrels will stay for a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy

2011-01-17 Thread philippe makowski
2011/1/17 Michael scherer m...@zarb.org: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 06:15:52PM +0100, philippe makowski wrote: Hi, I though that I can find more time to work on this week end, but unfortunately it was not the case. The Mandriva doc is really not a good starter

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download

2011-01-17 Thread Florian Hubold
Am 13.01.2011 20:52, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le jeudi 13 janvier 2011 à 20:21 +0100, Marcello Anni a écrit : and what's better than bittorrent protocol to use user available bandwith to do this? i would like to know: And I do know that bittorrent was said to overload the routing

Re: [Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

2011-01-17 Thread Florian Hubold
Am 15.01.2011 11:08, schrieb Remy CLOUARD: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=spec_syntax Please review this page as it’s one of the most important one for the beginning of the mentoring process, with the RPM Howto page (yet to be imported). I have one comment, or more of a question: Why is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

2011-01-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Florian Hubold at 17/01/11 21:53 did gyre and gimble: Am 15.01.2011 11:08, schrieb Remy CLOUARD: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=spec_syntax Please review this page as it’s one of the most important one for the beginning of the mentoring process, with the RPM Howto page

Re: [Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

2011-01-17 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
2011/1/17 Florian Hubold doktor5...@arcor.de: Am 15.01.2011 11:08, schrieb Remy CLOUARD: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=spec_syntax Please review this page as it’s one of the most important one for the beginning of the mentoring process, with the RPM Howto page (yet to be imported). I

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download

2011-01-17 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
2011/1/12 Marcello Anni marcello.a...@alice.it: Thanks Olivier, for saying this much better than I could wobo, yet another mirror maintainer yes wobo, but  except Per Øyvind no one has really answered to my question... PS: you should really look into the research papers pointed to before even

Re: [Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy

2011-01-17 Thread Michael Scherer
Le lundi 17 janvier 2011 à 21:03 +0100, philippe makowski a écrit : 2011/1/17 Michael scherer m...@zarb.org: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 06:15:52PM +0100, philippe makowski wrote: Hi, I though that I can find more time to work on this week end, but unfortunately it was not the case. The

Re: [Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

2011-01-17 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Monday, January 17, 2011 11:45:24 am Maarten Vanraes wrote: Op maandag 17 januari 2011 18:23:55 schreef Thierry Vignaud: On 17 January 2011 16:58, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Given the fact that rpm5 is drifting away from the usage of %mkrel for using %distepoch, I truly

Re: [Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

2011-01-17 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 18 januari 2011 02:07:32 schreef Thomas Spuhler: On Monday, January 17, 2011 11:45:24 am Maarten Vanraes wrote: Op maandag 17 januari 2011 18:23:55 schreef Thierry Vignaud: On 17 January 2011 16:58, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Given the fact that rpm5 is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download

2011-01-17 Thread Motoko-chan
However I feel that 4) It is reasonable for downloaders to use multiple connexions per mirror, as long as they don't bypass the controls put in place by the mirror. Not only reasonable, but actually desirable in terms of using otherwise unused download capacity that occurs from time to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy

2011-01-17 Thread philippe makowski
2011/1/18 Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org: We can merge part of their policy , I am not against it, I just think we should not adopt everything :) Fine So I'll try to

[Mageia-dev] mailing list for new RPMs

2011-01-17 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Hi Could we set up a mailing list for new uploaded RPMs like we had in Mandriva? See you