[WBEL-users] Hello everybody!!!

[W. Chris Shank]

I'm definitely interested in an apt repository for Whitebox.

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 19:20, Ed wrote:
> Hedemark, Magnus [Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:36:59PM -0500]
> > From: Administrador de Red [mailto:ixenrp@ehtij.co.cu] said:
> > 
> > > Hi fellows!!! My name's Ixen Rodríguez Pérez & I'm from Isle 
> > > of Youth, Cuba.
> > > 
> > > I've got White Box Release Candidate 2 recently
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Don't shoot the messenger, but this brings up an interesting point.  WBEL is
> > primarily packaged in the USA.  Is anything in the distribution subject to
> > export controls?  While there is nothing stopping a national of an embargoed
> > country from downloading the software from another country, are American
> > servers expected to block IP ranges known to eminated from embargoed
> > nations?
> > 
> > Maybe someday things will change but for the time being the US federal
> > government takes a dim view of American software going to Cuba.  This has
> > become even more sensitive under the current US administration.
> > 
> > There are exemptions for "certain publicly available technology and
> > software" but I'm not clear on what those exemptions are.  I couldn't
> > readily find details on this in a quicky search.
> 
> IANAL.  But I think that you have to inform the US Bureau of Export
> Adminisistration with the location of the files that have
> encryption.  This from http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/6-4.html
> and it looks like the Bureau web site is http://www.bxa.doc.gov/
> I'm wading through their "guides" but most of it is confusing to
> me.  What does Debian do?  We'd probably be in a similar situation.
> 
> > > if not, how can I do to update and upgarde my White 
> > > Box packages???
> > 
> > RC2 has yum built in.  You will need to edit /etc/yum.conf to point to a
> > mirror site that carries the updates.  The only ones that I know of off the
> > top of my head are in the USA.  Ultimately because of your location you
> > should probably be pulling updates from a non-US server.
> 
> This brings up another point.  I'm working on upgrading all of our
> computers here from redhat 7.3 to white box.  Right now we have an
> apt-get server that we use for installs and updates, with a few extra
> custom RPMS on it.  I was planning on taking the source RPMS from
> redhat, compiling them, and placing them on the apt server.
> 
> Is anyone else interested or planning on using apt with whitebox?
> I'll probably end up recompiling a bunch of programming, scientific,
> and math software for whitebox anyway, and if someone here would find
> that useful we can work on it together.  Even something as simple
> as providing an apt-get mirror would help if there's a bunch of
> apt users.
> 
>   Ed
> 
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