From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:57:13 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com Subject: Re: Need for Cross Platform Updates Distribution Message-ID: <20000619075713.A25220@suse.de> References: <394D2013.AAD184AB@golden.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <394D2013.AAD184AB@golden.net> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sun, Jun 18, hendricks wrote: > My idea is that the iso-image (identical) would be available from all > distributions and also sold for some small fee by all distributions. > > I can create all of the JDK binaries, I am building the kde2 beta 2 > stuff as I write this, I have all the GNOME Helix 1.2 binaries and > srpms, Jack has the XFree 4.0 rpms and srpms with the latest G4/Rage 128 > Pro fixes in place, I have the Xpmac source (and some changes from > Ryuichi to integrate), I have access to alot of patches (both from > Blackdown and Sun) that fix serious bugs in OpenMotif 2.1, Franz already > has posted his latest tool chain, and Paul's 2.2.16 rsync kernel is > available right now. I also have the cvs from last night of Mozilla and > will build it this week. > > All of this would be available for some sort of joint effort to quickly > get out an updates CD for everyone to use. > > What do people think? Is this stealing too much thunder from thenext > distributions releases? If not, I say let's do it. The idea is good, but it will not work because every distro has its own filesystem structure. As example, we put everything under /opt/{kde,gnome}, the RedHat based distros somewhere under /usr. Another problem is the naming convention of the rpm files. We have a rpms with maximal 8 chars and this will lead to problems when upgrading the stuff. You can not mix that or your rpm database becomes useless. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/