[WBEL-users] Rsync Updates Organizing

[David Mir]

So do you know what the current "extensive package testing system" yes? If so 
please state it. I mean this and am not trying to be mean or anything just 
want to know so if some people decide to start updating themselves they can 
use a similar system.

On Friday 19 November 2004 02:15 pm, Ben Mohilef wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2004 at 19:22, Michiel van Es wrote:
> > Oh ..if so..who is providing the feedback for broken packages and
> > offering their help to keep the updates up2date?
>
> I am surprised that beau.org hasn't pulled the plug on this mailing
> list. If I were a taxpayer in Beauregard Parish, I would be
> screaming my head off if my library employees were fiddling with
> open source software distribution instead of maintaining my library
> system.
>
> They have done a wonderful job in getting Whitebox linux started.
> RedHat is doing an excellent job in making the source code
> updates available to people like us who haven't even paid a cent
> for the distribution ( recall the GPL - they only have to provide
> source code to their customers ).
>
> Rolling your own from the RH Sources is fairly easy (except for
> openoffice which requires 10Gb free in /usr,  as I found out the hard
> way).
>
> As the comedy of fedoralegacy.org shows, a herd of volunteers
> requires a lot of good organization and a lot of security checking or
> it will fail. If you want to start such a group for whitebox, you are
> certainly free to do so. However, if you do so, be aware that you
> may be held personally liable for the security issues should one of
> the packages end up trojanned. I can see why beau.org would want
> to avoid that situation.
>
> I trust RedHat and Whitebox. Mostly trust Centos. Definitely trust
> my own builds. However, I wouldn't trust a herd effort on any
> machine connected to the internet unless there was a very
> extensive package testing system implemented.
>
>
>
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