On 27 Aug 2003, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 21:31, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> My repository? Some email and ham radio software, probably
> nothing worth waiting for. The interesting stuff will be in
> your repository, not mine ;)
Rik, instead of setting up "yet another repository" why not join Fedora
and publish your packages through that?
Good question. I guess one reason is that I also want to make
the RPMs available for a few non-RH distributions. I would also
like to be able to build the RPMs for half a dozen distributions
with one command, having the build system take care of that for
me ...
Of course you'll get your packages out much faster if you publish
in
your own repo, considering the average time a package sits in Fedora QA
:) but it's a central thing and seems to be quite popular among RH
employees even.
QA is a good thing, but I'm not sure I will always have the
time to keep up with whatever happens inside a project like
Fedora. Think of me as an amateur packager, mostly interested
in packages I want to use, making them available for distros
which I happen to have running in various places.
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan