[Dev] about new packagers and personal repos

[Aurélien]

Nicolás Reynolds <fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar> writes:

> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:49:09 -0300, Nicolás Reynolds <fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar> wrote:
>> since i've been receiving a few queries about becoming a parabola
>> packager and having access to a personal repo (the [~people] kind of
>> repos), i'd like us to discuss a few guidelines so everything is clear
>> :)
>> 
>> situation so far:
>> 
>> to be a packager you need a pair of ssh and gpg keys. ssh is needed to
>> access the repo server and to upload packages, and the gpg key is
>> required for signing them.
>> 
>> db-update refuses to release packages if they're unsigned, but it
>> doesn't perform validity checks. this is pretty simple to implement so
>> it may be done in a few days if no one beats me to it. make sure to post
>> your gpg key to a keyserver (any but pgp.mit.edu).
>> 
>> we have been giving repo access to people we know from the irc channel.
>> 
>> for a [repo] to show on parabolaweb an admin (currently encyclomundi and
>> i, iirc) has to create a new repo on the django admin page. it also has
>> to be *commited* to the main dbscripts.git repo after including it on
>> the config file, so it can be pulled on the web server. from then on, a
>> cronjob takes care of including new packages to parabolaweb database.
>> 
>> / end of situation
>> 
>> so what do you think? :)
>
> related:
>
> we've been discussing about how to decentralize a PUR and using git
> repos (or any dvcs) for that seems to be the right way.
>
> one of the ideas is to have a git repo for each package (xihh would like
> this) and putting them as git submodules of a personal repo, in a way
> that you could, for instance:
>
> git clone git://fauno-machine/fauno
>
> and have every package maintained by me, or from your repo:
>
> git clone git://fauno-machine/fauno/a-package
> git submodule add a-package
>
> and import a single package to your repo. common tasks can be put on
> libretools scripts. arch packages can be retrieved from their branches,
> though the whole repo is heavy.
>
> in the next days i'll be writing an article about git hosting on the
> wiki for starters :D 
>
>
> ps: this is just an idea, we have abslibre.git...
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Hi,

The idea of a full wiki help page on the subject seems nice.

for the place of the git, it can be a good experience to know 'how make
your own git' but for a 24/24 7/7 distro need ... maybe it is not the
best way to use.

Or maybe if it's possible a sort of decentralization recentralized
... each builder make it's own git as you suggest, but the server is
able to a form of rsyncing all git in one ... like that all git are
always available to all.


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