Re: Common repository creation stalled?
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:39:01PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
> Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
>
> >So far the two propasals were subversion and arch. Both them are
> >available at debian.org. Alioth could be considered for additional
> >facilities, eventually.
> >
> >Could the team leader (aka wli) do the choices?
> >
> >In the first case, a decision about svn vs arch is the first step to
> >have a (svn|arch).debian.org repository up and running (by mailing
> >debian-admin). Alioth repo can be set more easy, instead.
> >
> >We have a sort of consensus about the contents (debian tree and
> >patches-to-vanilla for every arch), too.
> >
> >So, please let us go ahead.
> >
> >
> >
> Look at arch.debian.org. The entire kernel is already available there.
>
> http://arch.debian.org/arch/linux/linus/linus--mainline/
>
> I think that it is possible to trust this repository for development (as
> upstream vanilla source), but the Debian source package should still use
> the upstream tarball downloaded from kernel.org. This way even if
> someone cracks arch.d.o and inserts backdoors, these will not be part of
> the Debian kernel.
Like i said, if you want to go with an arch solution, fine with me.
Please check in the debian stuff there (maybe under arch/linux/debian,
or something such), and provide some easyguidelines on how to use it for
a newbie.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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