[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] extras repository

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 15:33 +0200, Ferenc Szekely wrote:
[snip]
> One idea is to have an "extras" component within each repository. The
> current extras would move under mistral.

Yes, this seems exactly equivalent to what others do. For instance,
Ubuntu has additional components, not additional repositories:

For instance:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe main restricted
multiverse

>  Scirocco will have a separate
> extras and sardine and perhaps herring will get one too.
> This would require more work from the developers, or from the package
> maintainers. They need to recompile their applications and upload them
> to separate places. 

I don't see how anything else can possibly work.

But there must be some tools to automatically build packages out there.
I don't believe that Ubuntu or Debian maintainers personally build their
packages for all versions (Ubuntu breezy, dapper, edgy, feisty), and all
architectures (i386, PPC, etc).

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