Re: No PLF update media for 2010.0

Anssi Hannula <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:41:38 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.plf.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Götz Waschk wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Thierry Vignaud <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Still, official updates for 2010.0 packages that are packaged in plf too
>> do not get their counterparts uploaded in plf updates (really releases)
>> such as:
>> - gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-6.1mdv2010.0.src.rpm
>> - (incoming) mplayer-1.0-1.rc3.0.r29554.3mdv2010.0.src.rpm
> Hi Thierry,
> 
> there is no automatic process for this.> Someone has to build them
> manually. PLF has some new build VMs for this purpose, but they are
> broken most of the time. Currently, Anssi rebuilds the updates on a
> best-effort base at home.

A better process would be nice. Sometimes I wonder if I should stop
rebuilding them (yes, I have an old evil hacky bot doing that among
other things) so that people would have more incentive to work on this...

-- 
Anssi Hannula