[WBEL-users] Upgrade Path

[Jamey Fletcher]

Vic wrote:

>> after all the only goal here is to have a rhel compatible distro, or did
>> you fork that idea to something else ?

> One of my goals is to have a nice stable distribution where people don't
> continually question my continuance with the WhiteBox distribution name.

> This is what I want to do. That's what Free software is supposed to be about.

IANAL, nor am I jmorris at beau.org - however, as you can see by my e-mail 
address, I might have talked to him on occasion - and I have.

John and the Library are having turbulent times now (no, not in the his 
job's in danger kind!), but there's a lot going on behind the scenes 
there.  (People never realize how much goes on *BEHIND* the check-out 
desks at a library.)  I haven't talked much lately about the current 
status, though I know he's downloaded the RHEL 5.0 packages and is 
looking at them.

I also remember a problem that popped up when the project first started. 
  John registered whiteboxlinux.org, but didn't bother with the .com and 
.net.  Someone else did, and set up a whole CMS forum setup there, and 
seemed to want to become an official WhiteBox Linux site.  However, John 
never really *intended* for there to be anything extremely official. 
John never did anything about that sight, quite simply because John's 
fairly hard-core old-school Internet, and doesn't use web forums much (I 
think Slashdot is the only one I've ever seen him post in) - he much 
prefers mailing lists.  Eventually said person left WHEL and moved over 
to CentOS, I think.

John's not going to hand over the signing keys for the Beauregard 
Library's packaging - but that's no reason someone else can't sign with 
their own keys - look at the alternate repositories for Fedora!  Dag, 
Dries, Livna, etc, all use their own keys.  I encourage, and I think 
John would too, someone else to set up their own WhiteBox update server!

So, John isn't going to get annoyed at someone else setting up a 
repository, and making updates available from their site.  I will tell 
you that one thing that slows John down a lot is his insistence on 
making the packages *RIGHT* - not just "Oh, that built - let's release 
it!"  That's why there are so many packages with -WBEL in the package 
name - he's had to make significant changes, there, to get them to build 
properly.