On Thursday 25 September 2003 14:41, Pekka Savola wrote:
Such as, everybody (on the "backport ring" that is) builds
on their own
systems, and signs w/ their own GPG keys. The RPMS are published on the
folks own servers. A set of central servers polls periodically the list of
those websites, and pulls the RPMs. If the GPG signature matches, put it
in the central repository and send an automatic heads-up message to
everyone (if desirable).
I as PostgreSQL RPM maintainer for the PostgreSQL Global Development Group do
something similar to this using a loose group of volunteers. I need to get
GPG signing working, though. I have usually been able to get RPMs for RHL9,
8.0, 7.3, and even 6.2 in pretty short order. Even have a fellow building
for RHAS for me. I do the RHL9, 8.0, and Aurora SPARC Linux 1.0 builds
myself, though.
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