Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-11-20 23:07:28 -0800] Jesus Alvarez: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:39:53PM +1100, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > Having your personal repository in open access is great! > > Does that mean not PGP signed? No, it means making the repository publicly accessible, as opposed to keeping it on a private

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Jesus Alvarez
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:39:53PM +1100, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > Having your personal repository in open access is great! Does that mean not PGP signed? > I would just additionally recommend putting a short banner at the root > of your repository to act both as a short howto and legal statement;

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-11-20 20:48:42 -0800] Jesus Alvarez: > The reason I ask this is because I created two signed repositories for some > packages I maintain, zfs and netflix-desktop. They do have usage, and in my > forum posts, people seem to really appreciate the availability of the repo. > However, I am not a

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 22:32:13 Patrick Burroughs wrote: > Who says he's not? All the packages he's mentioned are available on > the AUR, maintained by him; he's offering unofficial repositories as a > supplement to the AUR, for people like myself who don't want to kill > their laptop compiling all

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 20:48:42 Jesus Alvarez wrote: > When I brought the topic up in #archlinux, there was some concern I was > using a repo and not solely relying on AUR. Why do you not want to use AUR? -- Cheers Jayesh