Wiki Permissions

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Jul 20 20:44:40 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:12 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Personally, I'd rather see an ftp site for this.  Better control, more
> universal and less prone to corruption, etc.

Yes, I need to come up w/ some sort of mechanism to generate random
user/password combos for onetime uploading for this.

> > We have 0 need for a page to link to add-on or 3rd party packages for
> > older releases.
> 
> Well, if "We" == "The Fedora Legacy Project" then no, if "We" ==
> "the people who use Fedora Legacy" then their is obviously a great
> demand for this, both from people who want to share their packages, and
> even more from people who want to find such packages.

I'm speaking from the Fedora Legacy Project standpoint.

> > We're here to fix security bugs in existing software,
> 
> Unfortunately, since we consumed the older project which did provide add-ons
> and updates, people are still looking for than functionality.  Now, why
> they can't find it in ATrpms et all is another question.
> 
> Maybe we could solve this problem by adding an FAQ entry which points to
> ATrpms, FreshRPMS, etc. and telling them to look there for that kind of
> support?

We didn't consume any project...  Warren from Fedora.us assisted us in
some initial setup and helped me with some logics on how to set things
up, but we are our own project and have been since day one.

I do not believe we can link to repos that have questionable content.
Just not allowed.  We can link to Fedora Extras as packages there are
pre-vetted.  Pretty much nowhere else though.

> > not add to it (with the exception of yum to get the updates)  I'm sorry
> > if I led the project into believing that this was OK.  It is not, and
> > the page should be removed.  3rd party add-ons can go somewhere else,
> > they are not Legacy scope.
> 
> I've removed the link to the page (not sure how to remove the actual
> orphaned page, assume that will happen automatically or something).
> 
> What about putting an FAQ entry pointing to sites which do provide updated
> packages for "legacy" os versions?  Would that be okay, and if so, should
> I create it?

See above.

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