[WBEL-users] Rsync Updates Organizing

[Michiel van Es]

William Warren wrote:
> They CAn be..but he maintainers of the distro have chosen not to..as is 
> their right..:)
> 

a) try to reply under the quote
b) it is NOT their right 'cause the whole product is Open Source and is 
a community based.
When I'm screaming I have this distro for you and it is perfect, I can 
expect people will ask counterquestions if something is broke.

I can say :'yeah..yeah..f*ck off'  or I can say (being a reasonable 
person and understanding the power of a open source community): 'I couls 
ude some help fixing it..would you liek to help me?

That's where the problem is..

Michiel

> Michiel van Es wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> David Mir wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry I sent this out on Monday but used wrong reply address so it 
>>> never got
>>> posted |-) .
>>>
>>> After reading through the mailing list archives, trying several 
>>> servers and
>>> comparing packages to RHEL3 I realized that Whitebox Repository 
>>> packages are
>>> not being updated (I saw the post from Vikki).  One of my biggest 
>>> fears in
>>> choosing a RHEL clone was that the support for packages would stop.  
>>> Before I
>>> start getting flames back....stop and save your energy.... I'm very 
>>> grateful
>>> and not complaining but I believe that Whitebox has a pretty big base.
>>>
>>> According to distrowatch:
>>> Top 5 RHEL-based distributions
>>> 1. White Box Enterprise Linux
>>> 2. CentOS
>>> 3. Lineox Enterprise Linux
>>> 4. Tao Linux
>>> 5. Fermi Linux
>>>
>>> But all these other distros have the updated packages, again put down 
>>> the
>>> keyboard and stop the flame reply, I'm getting to my point soon.  
>>> With all
>>> these people using this distro, there should be no excuse for this! 
>>> John and
>>> Vikki can't be expected to do this all by themselves.  Yes I know I 
>>> should
>>> have posted this to the dev list but I think more people look at this 
>>> list.
>>> This is the time to create a structure to have the users set up 
>>> RPMS.  I, for
>>> one, volunteer my services/bandwidth(cable modem anyway 
>>> :-P)/server/time to
>>> compile the packages and upload them to a central rsync server to 
>>> propagate
>>> to all the others.   So if anyone knows the best way to set this up 
>>> please
>>> feel free to post this, it would save me the time to find out.  I 
>>> think what
>>> we need is:
>>>
>>> 1) Easiest way to get new released SRPMS for RHEL (obviously an 
>>> automated
>>> process not "goto RH web site")
>>>
>>> 2) Automated way for compiling SRPMS and for the different supported
>>>  platforms
>>>
>>> 3) Way to keep track who has what SRPMS (I mean how many SRPMS does RH
>>> release?  if it is not too much I would do it all)
>>>
>>> 4) Testing and QA on RPMS also Checksum sig etc.
>>>
>>> If anyone else thinks other things should be added feel free to add 
>>> to the
>>> list.
>>>
>>>
>>> Again I'm just here to make the distro better not to bad mouth 
>>> (beside I have
>>> updated about 20 workstations to whitebox I would hate to have to 
>>> switch).
>>>
>> I 100% agree with you?
>> 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?
>>
>> Michiel
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