Well, virtmaint isn't a real user with a real account. However, we can do one better...

How about we setup a virtmaint group under http://fedorapeople.org/groups/ ?

This is another space on fedorapeople thats unquotaed and can be writable to a group of folks

Are all the people who would use this in any one group? If not, we can just add facls for whoever needs access.

Would this work for your needs?

A group sounds great! I think making the top level dir named 'virt' is good, and for now I'm probably the only one who needs access.

ok, I have setup /project/virt/ as owned by you on fedorapeople.org.

That should appear as http://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/

Let us know if you need a group added to permissions or other users, or anything else.

Great, thanks. But new_repo doesn't seem to like 'virt' as a user/group name. Is there some way I can create a repo owned by virt?

If not I could just create the repo for crobinso and use symlinks to make the .repo file reference the stable groups/virt path, but repos.fedorapeople.org would still point to me as the repo owner, which may not be future proof.

well, 'virt' isn't a real group or user. It's a bot placeholder used in the packagedatabase.

This is simply to redirect folks from the old repo to the new groups one?
We could add some redirects for you... or you could use symlinks I suppose.

I think I can make it work, was just wondering if there was an easier 'official' way. Thanks for the prompt help + responses Kevin!

Okay, one more question.

If basically share the repo data out of http://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/... is that a problem? Want to make sure there isn't any bandwidth magic between repos.fedorapeople.org and plain fedorapeople.org web serving.

There are not any bandwidth magic or other magic.

We setup that path on the web explicitly for this purpose.