Migrating to rpmrepo
This information is not ready for general consumption. rpmrepo is not ready to be used.
How will we move to the new rpmrepo project?
This is still discussed, but probably it will be something like this:
- Announce the rpmrepo project on the RPMforge mailinglists.
- Point users to this page/wiki and encourage users to contribute to the documentation. RPMforge will probably be a large contributor to the rpmrepo project, so i guess it wont be a problem if temporarily a small part of the rpmrepo wiki is used by documentation about RPMforge and the transition from RPMforge to rpmrepo. There are quite a lot of knowledgable people between the RPMforge users who might be willing to help at rpmrepo.
- Probably in the near future, a versioning system like mercurial or subversion will be installed at rpmrepo which will contain the spec files.
- The next step consists of filling this versioning system with all the spec files of the contributing repositories. Some spec files will need to be merged, updated or adapted to a certain layout. We hope we're able to contribute most of the RPMforge spec files. Binary rpms are still made at the old repositories.
- When a buildsystem is installed at rpmrepo and binary packages are made, tested and signed, then we can announce this to the RPMforge users so they can update their smart/yum/apt configuration. Probably only at this last step, some action is required from normal users.