[WBEL-users] Re: Updates..? (Lamar Owen)

[Brent DiNicola]

I just want to make clear. The point of MY particular email was to merely
confirm that something wasn't wrong with my rsync or if indeed as they
stated they were just to busy to do updates right now. That I got an
answer to quite sufficiently. I don't see a reason for a grass roots
effort to try and start the "community action" right now. I just wanted to
make sure all my stuff wasn't broken :) In a related note, today I got a
notice that there were no files to rsync.. and did some digging on the
mirrors and have noticed that all the updates directories are now named
"obsolete-updates", something changing that I didn't catch ?

Just trying to know if my stuff is broken or I need to change something so
I can keep up to date with the fine efforts of the Library.

Brent


> From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
> Organization: Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Updates..?
> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:02:26 -0500
>
> On Saturday 13 November 2004 04:04, bishop wrote:
>> Hmm.  Sounds like we could quickly gear ourselves up for a Fedora-like
>> effort, here.  I think we need a BZ and a Wiki, at least, for
>> coordination, and some kind of test procedure.
>
> Understand that John Morris did this primarily to benefit the library.  He
> released it out of good will.  He has made it fairly clear in times past
> that
> he intends to maintain it *for the library* first and foremost, and that
> the
> results will continue to be publicly available.  But, no, this is not a
> team
> effort, really.  Search the archives of this list to see more.  If you
> can't
> deal with that, well, there are other RHEL3 from-source-clones out there,
> like FermiLab's Scientific Linux or cAos' CentOS.  Or Tao, or.... well,
> there's a bunch.  Or do it yourself and put up an RHEL3 compatible
> repository
> like Dag does.
>
> Since other projects are handling those logistics already, and since John
> hasn't been in the past willing to do this (which is his right), then you
> can
> either join another project or just wait on John.  Of course, John may
> decide
> to change his mind.
>
> But, like I said, understand that WhiteBox Linux is not a community
> project;
> it is the fruits of a library's internal IT project released to the
> public,
> which is a completely different animal.
>
> And the way John is doing things works for me at the moment, for at least
> some
> servers I run.  I certainly would rather wait for a 'blessed' RPM from
> beau.org than use a third-party's RPM regardless of how quickly it is
> released.  John has done remarkably well in keeping up with updates.  And,
> well, the fact of the matter is that if he had fallen too far behind I
> would
> have put something else on those servers by now.
>
> Push comes to shove I am capable of downloading the RHEL3 source RPMs and
> rebuilding them myself if need be.
> --
> Lamar Owen
> Director of Information Technology
> Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
> 1 PARI Drive
> Rosman, NC  28772
> (828)862-5554
> www.pari.edu

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