[WBEL-users] Rsync Updates Organizing

Michiel van Es michiele@info.nl
Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:48:08 +0100


Rex Dieter wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Michiel van Es wrote:
> 
>> Why aren't there any plans for Whitebox like distributing the updates?
>> Why are there so much single points of failures?
>> Cann't most of these task (rebuilding the source rpm's,providing a yum 
>> repository) be delegated to other people EXCEPT for the maintainer of 
>> White Box?
> 
> 
> FYI, the whitebox developers (John,Vicky, et-al) have (so far) chosen to 
> not accept any outside help, despite it being offerred quite a few times.
> 
> -- Rex

That sucks big time!
Is this a COMMUNITY distro or not?
Sure I can deploy my own repisitory but I'm thinking 'bout all those 
people not knowing how to set it up and just run yum -y update and get 
all those nifty retrygrab errors..

Michiel