[packman] OBS 2.x and new repository layout

[Herbert Graeber]

Moin Detlef

First, you missed the important part of my mail, that is the handling similar 
to openSUSE:Contrib, that means having frozen repos for each openSUSE 
distribution that can be used without big hassle and unimportant updates by 
the average user.

Am Freitag, 31. Dezember 2010, 13:46:43 schrieb Detlef Reichelt:
> Am Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:16:18 +0100
> 
> schrieb Herbert Graeber <herbert at links2linux.de>:
> > I would like to have a variant of option 3 on top of option 2:
> > 
> > codecs:11.2
> > multimedia:11.2
> > games:11.2
> > stuff:11.2
> 
> hm, why codecs and multimedia?

I have taken this part from pascals mail. I think pascal wan'ts to take the 
essential packages to support mp3 and various video codecs (mplayer, xine, vlc 
and their dependencies) in codecs repository. Everything else should go to the 
multimedia repository. That's the mayjority and the average user does not need 
that stuff.

> multimedia (1)
> contrib (all other stuff)
> games
>
> In (1) we should provide all libs and apps which are crippled by
> openSUSE (linked to obs) _and_ most wanted apps/libs that are not
> shipped with openSUSE, for example vlc/mplayer/mad/ffmpeg etc.

There are many multimedia packages really unimportant for most machines. My 
mythtv packages for example and some more more related to video and music 
production.

> Newer version of vlc should be build in contrib and if we don't get
> bugreports for some time, it could be add in multimedia.

I am not sure if openSUSE will have a crippled vlc, too. At least there is a 
vlc phonon backend, which seems to work better than the xine one.
 
> And if we have directories on vesta like
> 
> openSUSE_11.3/multimedia
> openSUSE_11.3/conrib
> openSUSE_11.3/games
> 
> we could run a createrepo on openSUSE_11.3 with repodata in
> openSUSE_11.3/repodata. So we could offer packman as big
> repo too. Never tried this, but should work... ;)

I do not like that big mega giga repo. It makes it difficult for me to have my 
small mirror of essential things (eg. the codecs repo) and take the rest out 
of the big net.

I think the use of repos could be much easier with explicit Repo dependencies 
(Requires, Recommends), like for patterns and packages. So adding a more high 
level repo (eg. games) to pull in automatically the more low level ones 
(multimedia and/or codecs).

Herbert
-- 
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke