[packman] Repository layout clarification

Cristian Morales Vega reddwarf at opensuse.org
Thu Nov 14 18:29:46 CET 2013


On 14 November 2013 13:12, Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chvatal at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I was asked on irc I wrote bit update what I ment with my last mail
> about repo restructuralization.
>
> The gmail loves to mess up the formatting when I tried to paste it in so I
> uploaded it on webserver [1].
>
> If you want to comment some section just copy it from the file into the
> reply and I will try to adjust and change the file as we proceed.
>
> Any suggestions for why is it bad idea or any other are welcome.

"Side benefit of this change is that we can not link some pacakges on purpose
and use SR#s to include the changes into older distributions. Eg. keeping
older ffmpeg in 13.1 repo over the Factory one because we know it is prone to
be broken, etc. etc."

Sorry, what?




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