[WBEL-users] WhiteBox Updates

[William Hooper]

Helio Rubens Kamogawa said:
>> Again, no.  With the exception of yum, no Fedora pacakges are used.
>> Again, please point us to the area of the web site that is giving you
>> this
>> impression.
>
> On the FAQ, '...so yum has been brought in from Fedora along with a
> version of up2date that can work with yum. So pick Up2Date Network from
> the menu and it basically "just works"'
>
> As the text said 'pick Up2Date Network from the menu and it basically
> "just works"' I thought that it might be accessing the fedora network.

There is no "fedora network".  Fedora just uses yum repos.  Whitebox uses
different yum repos.

> I have read the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file, and dicovered the place
> where updates are stored.
>
> http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/updates/i386/
>
> Now I'd like to know 2 things now:
>
> 1. Who mantain the packages updated?

The Whitebox Maintainers at Beauregard Parish Public Library.

> 2. How long does it take to release a package once the srpm is released?

As long as it takes them to rebuild and release it.

> And a suggestion:
>
> Why a Errata page isn't created, so all updates are listed there? It
> would be easier to find the updated packages.

They are the same as Red Hat's Errata, so you can use Red Hat's Errata page.

-- 
William Hooper