[packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

Petteri Räty betelgeuse at gentoo.org
Sat Jun 13 12:16:13 PDT 2009


Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Petteri Räty wrote:
>> I mean making metadata.xml the authoritative source for mapping CPE to
>> Gentoo packages. I don't want to see the situation when adding new
>> packages to the tree would need some mapping being done in an external
>> web service.
> 
> Well, it's a nothing more than git commit and push once you
> sent me your public SSH key :-D
> 
> One of the stronger points for collaborating at the source is that
> poeple who are not Gentoo devs (yet) and therefore have no write access
> to the Gentoo tree can still extend and fix the Gentoo packagemap
> entries.  Doing it downstream would hurt the whole project
> in several ways.
> 
> 

If there's no entry in metadata.xml you can add it to your service and
submit them via the usual means to Gentoo repository. Based on my
experience I am just guessing that doing this externally won't be viable
in the long term. If you succeed that way, all power to you.

Regards,
Petteri

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