On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:31:14PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > >> Well, first, Apache CloudStack only releases source code. > >> > >> But Wido is kind enough to also host RPM / DEB package repos for users > >> to take advantage of. Our install guide explains how to build from > >> source, as well as how to use Wido's repos. > >> > >> This was all true for 4.0.0-incubating, and I think it still holds true > >> for all future releases. > >> > > Chip, > > > > Can you refresh my memory as to why this is? I look at something like cxf > > or tomcat, they all have binary downloads available. > > > > http://cxf.apache.org/download.html > > > > Because providing 'binaries' isn't necessarily problematic, but making > yum and apt repos work in the ASF mirror system seems a bit more of an > issue. Plus, Wido stepped up to do the work, no one else has offered > any other alternatives. > > --David >
Yup - exactly what David said. We had discussed trying to get ASF Infra to help us host package repos somewhere, but I don't think that went anywhere. And since Wido's doing it, it avoided all sorts of questions from the infra team around mirrors, archiving, etc... -chip
