Re: Need for Cross Platform Updates Distribution

On Sun, Jun 18, hendricks wrote:

My idea is that the iso-image (identical) would be available from all
distributions and also sold for some small fee by all distributions.

I can create all of the JDK binaries, I am building the kde2 beta 2
stuff as I write this, I have all the GNOME Helix 1.2 binaries and
srpms, Jack has the XFree 4.0 rpms and srpms with the latest G4/Rage 128
Pro fixes in place, I have the Xpmac source (and some changes from
Ryuichi to integrate), I have access to alot of patches (both from
Blackdown and Sun) that fix serious bugs in OpenMotif 2.1, Franz already
has posted his latest tool chain, and Paul's 2.2.16 rsync kernel is
available right now.  I also have the cvs from last night of Mozilla and
will build it this week.

All of this would be available for some sort of joint effort to quickly
get out an updates CD for everyone to use.

What do people think?  Is this stealing too much thunder from thenext
distributions releases?  If not, I say let's do it.

The idea is good, but it will not work because every distro has its own
filesystem structure. As example, we put everything under
/opt/{kde,gnome}, the RedHat based distros somewhere under /usr. Another
problem is the naming convention of the rpm files. We have a rpms with
maximal 8 chars and this will lead to problems when upgrading the stuff.
You can not mix that or your rpm database becomes useless.



Gruss Olaf

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